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Junior Jenny Reese led the way for the Crimson in Saturday’s springboard events. Reese finished runner-up in the one-meter with 262.20 points, only seven points behind the winner, Princeton’s Carolyn Littlefield. Sophomore Leslie Rea barely missed a second-place finish in the three-meter event by a mere 1.12 points. Reese followed Rea in fourth with 244.88 points...
...Nick Littlefield, a former staff director and chief counsel for Kennedy on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, described Kennedy as being “obsessed with school reform?...
...have to clearly disclose interest rates. When the Mexican microfinancier Banco Compartamos went public last year, revealing its loans carried rates of about 86% annually, the development consortium Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and others scorned it for having put shareholders ahead of clients. Says Elizabeth Littlefield, CEO of CGAP: "There is some risk that the mainstreaming of microfinance will threaten the very essence of microfinance's core mission: to help poor people lead better lives." At a time when governments, financial institutions and investors are paying more attention to the developing world, the microfinance revolution illustrates...
...River. The good people of Tennessee treated Georgia's move as a joke. Tennessee State Sen. Andy Berke, whose Chattanooga district would become part of Georgia under the other state's plan, proposed a winner-take-all wrestling match or football game to settle the matter; Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield sent an aide dressed as Davy Crockett to deliver a truckload of water to Georgia legislators...
...What they're proposing, even if they could get over the legal hurdles, would amount to the largest public works project in the history of the Southeast," says Littlefield. "A wildly conservative estimate would put the cost at about $200 billion. There are simple, far more cost-effective solutions to their problems instead of the Georgia legislature going off on some Don Quixote quest...