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...update its mascot. Officials hope that their newly buff diamondback Terrapin turtle, Testudo, will put a little fear in the hearts of opposing sports teams. Temple and Brigham Young universities also recently toughened up their sports icons (the former's owl symbol is now in attack mode, and the latter's cougar was made fiercer). Redesigns can flop, but so far these seem to be paying off. Brigham Young associate athletic director Duff Tittle says that after the new icon was introduced, "our merchandise sales went through the roof...
...won’t have the funds to sustain today’s system. If Social Security continues in its present form, we will confront the impossible choice of cutting benefits over 30 percent or raising payroll taxes by 50 percent. The former would be politically unthinkable; the latter, economically catastrophic...
...short: Cornel West is black. He is also a daffy, dubious academic. Is it really so unlikely that Larry Summers had the latter, and not the former, criterion in mind...
...about setting up the rape of Hanssen's wife, says the official, "it would strike me as weird on two or three different levels. Is he seriously proposing a criminal act? Was he drunk, or was this the raving of a lunatic? Or did he appear balanced?" If the latter, says the official, "What did it say about his ability to be duplicitous?" An inquiry into Hanssen's sexually deviant appetites would surely have caused the suspension of his clearance and might have led to the discovery of his past treacheries, which a blue ribbon commission headed by former...
...concluded with the varsity four races, where the Black and White “A’ boat finished second to Princeton, while the “B” crew won its race. The latter had spent the week working on starts and sprints to improve its performance at each end of the race...