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...surprising 5.7% rate in the 4th quarter - seeming to confirm what we've been hearing: the recession is officially over. But wait - foreclosure and unemployment rates remain high, and food banks are seeing record demand. Could it be that the GDP, that gold standard of economic data, might not be the best way to gauge a nation's relative prosperity...
...eyes will turn to Ithaca, which ESPN’s Andy Katz recently deemed his “place to be” this week in college basketball. Darren Everson of The Wall Street Journal added that “the game of the year in college basketball just might be in the Ivy League.” And Sports Illustrated’s Pablo Torre ‘07, a former Crimson sports editor, called it “the most anticipated conference game in decades...
Indeed, this idea should even appeal to more conservative bathroom-goers who might assume that higher quality toilet paper is an unnecessary expense. With better toilet paper, we can accomplish with a single transcendent wipe what would have required multiple unsatisfying squares and save a considerable amount of money. The bathroom tissue we currently employ, Georgia Pacific’s “Preference”, is available at 76¢ per roll and Charmin’s “Ultra Soft”, a bathroom tissue befitting a patrician, is a reasonable 83¢ per roll. That extra...
...test of endurance; there will always be players who opt out of the Pro Bowl because they're legitimately too beat up to play. Fining players who invent dubious injuries to duck out would be a start, although making a consequential dent in a superstar athlete's salary might be tough. At minimum, moving the game back to the Sunday following the Super Bowl seems like a no-brainer. Teams get to championships in part by having some of the game's best players, and those players should be able to participate without worrying about injuring themselves before...
...That same adjective might seem to apply to the failure of the Afghan government to include in its delegation even one woman. When Orsana Ashraf, the founder of the nongovernmental organization Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan, first heard about the London conference, she began to lobby officials to ask that women's views be properly represented. The response, she says: "They said this isn't ladies' business; this is about security...