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...next afternoon at the boxing quarterfinals, there was a moment when I realized the Cold War is not only history, it's cold history. In the space of a half hour I saw Jeff Lacy, the American armed robber turned 165-pound contender, stopped by a Russian, then our 201-pound ex-con, Michael Bennett, stopped by the brilliant Cuban, Felix Savon. The crowd was very evenhanded and it wasn't until I was on my way out that I realized I had just watched two of our guys lose to a Russian and a Cuban. We used...
Harvard took over at its 20-yard line and started to try and pound the ball on the ground. Sophomore running back Nick Palazzo, a fifth-stringer coming into the preseason and starting because of injuries to Harvard running backs, repeatedly tried running up the middle on this drive, but was stopped on all of them. With Palazzo's running quelled, Rose accounted for most of the yards on the ground on the drive. Of the 16 plays and 80 yards in the drive, Rose ran on six of them for 26 yards. Rose also found senior fullback Grady Smalling...
...slowdown; in the second quarter of this year it shot up at an annual rate of 5.7%. One result: though "tight labor markets are pushing up wages at a faster and faster clip," says Feldstein, unit labor costs--what employers pay out in wages and benefits for each pound of plastics produced or hamburger served by their workers--are lower than a year ago. And unit labor costs, he notes, are the "key driver of inflation...
...Harvard was able to pound the ball on the ground last year, gaining over 167 yards per game rushing...
...More energy derived from burning a pound of No. 6 fuel oil than from burning a like amount of pig lard, which emits 65% less nitrous oxide...