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...that we could have attained just as good of an education for a few bucks in late fees at the local library is fast becoming a reality.Little did we know when we came here that these stellar professors and this incomparable education would be kept at arms length from us by an unfortunate institution, guarded by a team of generally incompetent graduate students who presume to have the authority and the expertise to instruct and grade. These people, barely older than we are, control our lives for several hours each week. Yes, my friends, I speak of that peculiar...
...Crimson. Facing a strong headwind, the Crimson eight shared the lead with Brown throughout the first mile of the three-mile course but pulled away in the later two-thirds of the head race. A minor seat malfunction with 30 seconds remaining allowed Brown to gain a length on the first-place Harvard boat. The Crimson overcame the equipment breakage within three strokes, however, and secured the George M. Angle Cup in the crew’s first fall competition. Harvard will next be in action on Oct. 22 for the 41st annual Head of the Charles Regatta...
...adding to a cacophony of presidential woes, I happened to check the calendar: it was only the first week of October 2005. George W. Bush's second term was less than nine months old. He has about 1,200 days left in office, a span greater than the entire length of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Time sure flies when you're having...
Theyskens, who is resuscitating the stuffy old French house Rochas, which has been more famous for perfume than clothing, set fashion on a more genteel course last season when he introduced a turn-of-the-century silhouette with floor-length skirts and short, fitted jackets. This season he continued along those lines but added to the mix soft silk pantsuits that looked completely modern...
...cinematic display of favoritism--the top bank regulator chumming it up with someone he is supposed to regulate--reinforced Italy's nearly mythic status as Europe's most rigged economy. The scandal created a major crisis for the government of businessman Silvio Berlusconi, itself no paragon of arm's-length transactions. Yet even Berlusconi finally found enough moral high ground to call on Fazio to resign his lifetime post after Finance Minister Domenico Siniscalco quit in protest when his calls for Fazio to step down had no effect. Siniscalco's replacement, Giulio Tremonti, who clashed with Fazio in an earlier...