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Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello has had few better moments in his political career. Yet tonight he did not seem likely to either punch the air or appear too pleased with himself. Months of huddling with officials in preparing his 11th Budget had given Costello a pallid face. He looked in need of a decent night's sleep. His head was full of new tax scales, growth projections and spending measures. But ignore the facial puffiness and creases, for his lively eyes told the real story. Here was a happy fellow. The tax-cut man cometh...
...there was Cole, who, with Haviland next year, will form the Ivy League’s best one-two punch on the mound; who, on Saturday, finished a dazzling start with a nightmare sixth inning...
...dispute that took place while [James] was trying to board the bus,” Velissaris wrote in an e-mail. “The shuttle bus driver ran out of the bus in response to a comment I made while walking away from the bus, and proceeded to punch me in the chin while I was holding a table.” Lane further elaborated the sequence of events in his e-mail. “I intervened (pushed the driver) in James’ defense in order to cease any further attack from taking place...
...will take on Princeton (16-23-1, 11-9 Ivy), winners of the Gehrig Division, this weekend in a best-of-three set at O’Donnell Field.Harvard’s impressive pitching staff will hope to continue its Ivy League dominance behind the powerful 1-2 punch of sophomore Shawn Haviland and freshman Adam Cole.Haviland has demonstrated that he is one of the best pitchers in the league, if not the best. His Ancient Eight stats tell the story: In 37 innings pitched, he has allowed 28 hits, six runs—only three of them earned?...
...someone who has spent 30 of the past 40 nights shuttling a small laminated index card to senior bar.I am not the first person to realize this. According to my junior tutorial, the writer Randolph Bourne, who was extremely ugly and died young, totally beat me to the punch. No one has been around longer than old people, Bourne argued; consequently no one has been more systematically indoctrinated. When searching for wisdom, unless you want to become a total tool, there is only one reliable source: youth.In the last month, as I have struggled not to think about the impending...