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After the ruckus of the training, the race itself brought no less drama. Though the first turn in the course was in the Dark Blues’ favor, Oxford could not advance on the Light Blues, and at the mile marker, Cambridge had a third of a length’s lead and remained a second ahead of the Dark Blues at the Hammersmith Bridge...
Looking for a lesson in humility? Stand at a major historical marker, and try drawing a perfectly reasonable, prudent conclusion about where that marker is pointing. Believe me, if you read about a 15th century traveler saying, "I have to get back to Italy now; the Renaissance is starting," you're reading a line from a Woody Allen story. Real life rarely offers such prescience, even from the people paid to deliver it. Some of the days commemorated in this 80-year retrospective slipped by unnoticed at the time. Who could imagine that a gizmo to help techno-nerds talk...
Economists have latched onto this question almost as strongly as parents have. Their analysis uses future earnings as a marker of success, and studies suggest that there is a correlation between going to very expensive schools and earning higher incomes later in life...
...disarmed, but quickly moved on to the President's "cowboy mentality" and diplomatic depredations: "Your family is safer in a world where people look up to America than in a world where we are hated." At this, an elderly woman named Jane Majors scribbled a sign with Magic Marker and held it above her head: BUT WAR WILL MAKE THEM HATE US MORE...
...disarmed, but quickly moved on to the President's "cowboy mentality" and diplomatic depredations: "Your family is safer in a world where people look up to America than in a world where we are hated." At this, an elderly woman named Jane Majors scribbled a sign with Magic Marker and held it above her head: BUT WAR WILL MAKE THEM HATE US MORE...