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...While Christensen easily handled her fellow Ivy League competitors this season, the athlete known for her work ethic and motivation continued to work on jumping even higher above the rest of the field. Christensen’s new personal-best of 1.91 meters set last month beat her previous mark by seven inches. This not only moved her into second all-time in the Harvard record books, but also guaranteed her a berth in the NCAAs, a coveted spot that hasn’t always been easy for Christensen to get. “My freshman and sophomore year...
Tampa Bay is staging a revolution. Residents, mark your calendars - it begins on Monday, in your doctor's office...
...senior, you will get n+1, and you will be at the top of the lottery, so you will grab one of the best rooms available. Juniors will get a pretty solid n room. Sophomores will get a smile from Beth Terry (House Administrator) and a big fat question mark. Flyby called its sophomore 2-room double "The Cell," and only half-jokingly. Walkthroughs are present but often avoidable, and Claverly overflow housing is very nice for those who don't mind being a bit of distance from a dining hall...
...gradual rollout of version 2.0 of his bank plan - not necessarily bigger than the $787 billion package that left the markets cold, but sharper and more plausible. The trouble with the initial draft unveiled unartfully last month by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, says Moody's Economy.com chief economist Mark Zandi, was that it was "too clever by half," creating elaborate incentives for private investors when the simple solution would be to have Uncle Sam immediately wade in, grab control, wring out the bad debt and punish the malefactors. The more complex approach attempted to avoid the stigma and huge...
...when committee infighting helped sink that effort. Both chambers have said they intend to see legislation reach the floor before the August recess, though many admit the tougher part will come when the differences between the two versions must be reconciled. "The House bill will be the high-water mark of what we'd like to do with the system," says a Democratic Senate staffer involved in the talks. "Still, we don't have 60 votes yet. So the House is going to have to accept, to a certain degree, what we work out here...