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Junior Jesse Jantzen (149 lbs.) remained untouchable, recording three falls and an 11-0 shutout en route to his second consecutive championship. Senior Pat O’Donnell lost a close semifinal match to the eventual 174-pound champion Brad Dillon of Lehigh and ultimately finished fourth, earning a wild-card bid to the NCAAs...
Unfortunately, 125-pound senior David Germakian ended his career in a bizarre and disappointing fashion, losing by medical forfeit as a result of a cut on his head only a minute into his first match...
Rank and Bile Size matters, Brits crowed, when the U.K. overtook France in 1999 to become the world's fourth-biggest economy. But with the British pound down nearly 5% against the euro since January, and the U.K.'s ?1 trillion gross domestic product falling in value against France's GDP as a result, the French may soon be able to claim it was a grande illusion. If the pound falls less than 1% more, to 0.68 to the euro, France will again take the lead. To which Brits will surely reply, "It's really growth that counts...
Choosing the right blend in your local coffee bar just keeps getting more complicated. Now java junkies are faced with terms like organic, shade grown and fair trade. Each of these "cause coffees" usually costs a few dollars more a pound, forcing consumers to balance issues of ecology and politics against their budgets. That can be a difficult task before the first dose of caffeine in the morning. But we're here to help...
Though his first interests at Harvard were modernist writers such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Pearl says he soon realized that these authors were Dante enthusiasts. Pearl himself encountered Dante through three sequential graduate seminars given by Pertile, each of which treated a different section of the Divine Comedy...