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...surprised to learn that Chenoweth actually feels pain, join the club. But rest assured—he certainly doesn’t let it slow him down. A star Harvard runner, he blew away the competition last Friday in a dual meet against Yale, placing first by a decisive margin of 24 seconds. Chenoweth finished the 8-kilometer circuit in 24:20, his personal best for the Franklin Park course...
...just 50 years on what was once a swamp. It is also a shining example of a country that successfully melds disparate population groups - Chinese, Malays, Indians and Europeans - in a region where ethnic and political strife are commonplace. But as the tiny number who seek to form or join opposition groups know, speaking out in Singapore can invite a lawsuit, bankruptcy or even prison. From time to time the government tentatively tries to open up. "Speakers' Corner" was one such attempt. Modeled on its London namesake, it was established in 2000 in a park in downtown Singapore. When...
...President can up the ante. After insisting that health care business would prevent him from trekking to Copenhagen to personally lobby the IOC, on Monday White House officials announced that Obama, a de facto Chicago native, had changed his mind. Fellow Windy City superstars, his wife and Oprah, will join...
Basically, there is a special club that you—solely by virtue of your soon-to-be-earned Harvard degree—may join some day, when you inevitably find yourself alone and unloved in Manhattan a few years down the road. It’s called the Ivy Plus Society (the “Plus” is for schools that aren’t officially Ivies but are also kind of cool… you know, like Stanford or something). If you’re looking for that rare someone who’s as smart, good...
...misguided effort to boost the party (one posed as an MP, the other as an official Labour outlet). @lordmandelson, a fake version of Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, has also suspended activities. The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, who now tweets as @DMiliband, was beaten in the race to join Twitter by an impostor whose elegiac tweet on Michael Jackson's death was widely quoted by credulous media. "So far it's all been quite amusing," says McCarthy. "David Miliband talking about Michael Jackson's death isn't going to cause a foreign policy crisis whereas David Miliband saying...