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...place to ensure a competitive balance, but there's no sign of anything like that in the Premiership. "What we have is almost like a two-tier league structure," says Birkbeck's Chadwick: "Those that can win the Premier League, and those that won't." That may not matter as much as you might think. Though only four different teams have won the Premier League since 1992, most fans seem unperturbed by a lack of competitiveness. Midway through a survey of thousands of supporters, Birkbeck's Chadwick says top-flight followers still consider the league "exciting and unpredictable." And financial...
...investigating whether Rove and his staff engaged in a broad range of illegal political activities. What's with Rove's omnipresence? For starters, some investigators are newly empowered congressional Democrats, and he's the guy they're after. "They're throwing as much at him as they can, no matter the merits," says White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. But Democrats aren't the only ones digging. Several Abramoff investigators are Republican appointees, as is the head of the Office of Special Counsel, Scott Bloch...
...Captain Barbossa, the ghostly seaman "so wicked that Hell spat him back out," Rush says. This time he has a central role, but that's not the only perk. His character is an action figure and has been added to the Disney parks' Pirates ride. "For every actor, no matter what territory you work in, it's a very important moment in your life when you see yourself in a little cellophane box, and then know that that figure will be 10 ft. tall in the Disney ride...
...Gender will always be a difference,” says Claudia Goldin, explaining why she has continued to come back to studying women in economic history.“No matter how many of these differences begin to fade, I don’t think that they’ll ever go away entirely,” she says.What Goldin sees, though, is that today these different ways of life often result from the different choices men and women make, rather than from discrimination.For her next project, the Lee professor of economics will study men and women?...
What did Arianna Brandolini d’Adda ’07 learn from her experience as one of FM’s hottest freshman? “Looks really do matter.” For Brandolini d’Adda, being hot means doing the unexpected like “streaking [through] Quincy dining hall...at 3 am.” Next year she will “save the world, one crazy person at a time” as she works toward becoming a psychologist. Brandolini d’Adda claims her peak was Pre-frosh weekend...