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...place time at 49.61. The Crimson ‘A’ quad for the 4x400-meter relay captured 11th with a time of 3:21.10. Junior Jonathan Brito added another strong performance with an eighth-place jump in the high jump, clearing the 1.84-meter bar, while rookie Phil Ngo logged a 12th-place long jump of 6.49 meters. Volunteer coach Chris Bryce won the weight throw event with a toss of 20.04 meters, earning a qualifier for the USATF Championship. On the women’s side, sophomore Claire Richardson capped things off with her sixth-place finish...
...current financial crisis is not all Phil Gramm's fault. Who says? Well, Phil Gramm says. Big surprise. But in a lengthy defense of his record and analysis of the current mess Friday afternoon in Washington, Gramm did allow that it might be at least a teeny bit his fault. Call it the beginning - maybe - of the nuanced consideration of the causes of the crisis that was impossible during the fall election campaign...
...take some questions. The crowd was heavy on the conservative Washington notables - Cato Institute chairman emeritus William Niskanen, McCain campaign talking head Nancy Pfotenhauer and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz were three that I recognized. But rabble off the street were welcome as well. (Read a critique of Phil Gramm's explanation of the financial crisis...
...popular narrative (popular among the press, anyway), the media found a tough, skeptical voice after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It's fairer to say, though, that the public - faced with objective evidence of government failure - gave the media permission to find that voice. MSNBC, which fired liberal Phil Donahue in 2003 - after a network report called him a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war" - now employs Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann...
...couple of weeks after the confetti settled, he posted an alert on MyBarackObama.com proposing a new activist group in Calvert County, a rural exurb of Washington where the rolling farmland is dotted by weathered barns and crab shacks. Complete strangers signed up. A retired Air Force pilot, Phil Pfanschmidt, and his wife Joyce, both 71, came to the first meeting in December. So did Chris Melendez, a self-employed art dealer who lives about 30 miles away. Richardson's old motorcycle buddy Al Leandre brought his wife, a public-school teacher, and passed the word to some friends...