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...Thought You Should Know: Thanks go out to the Ivy League office for this "meaningless fact of the week." Before Princeton did it this year, only four teams had waded through the Ivy League season to emerge with an unblemished record since formal league play commenced in 1956: the 1969 and '76, and the '70 and '71 Quakers. Of those four, only the '71 Penn squad managed at least one victory in the NCAA tournament...
Think of Reich's achievement, wiping away most of America's purported economic problems in 331 pages. The trade imbalance becomes a meaningless statistic, since it is primarily caused by "American-owned firms making things abroad." The budget deficit is a mere piffle in a world where financial capital sloshes over national borders. The book ridicules as "outmoded thinking" fears that foreigners are buying up America. "As corporations of all nations are transformed into global webs," Reich explains, "the important question . . . is not which nation's citizens own what, but which nation's citizens learn how to do what...
...unequal and unpredictable landscapes with grid patterns that provide useful chessboards for economic competition. The standardizing grids expand not just outwards, but upwards, in skyscrapers whose sixth floors and 60th floors are identical, as well as across time, thanks to the modern invention of clocks to "cut time into meaningless fragments of deadening routine...
...game is basically meaningless. The winner does not get a 'Pot, nor skate a victory lap. All that a win claims is the bragging rights associated with being the third best hockey team in Boston...
Because the game is meaningless, Harvard fans may get a chance to see some Crimson players that they normally do not have the opportunity to watch. Senior netminder Mike Francis is the probable starter for tonight's game, his fourth start of the season...