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...Iraq war could cost $200 billion; Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki was publicly chastised for not backing up White House estimates on troop levels. But Snow's ad-libbing is tolerated, even encouraged. How does he pull it off? It's not just that he is as quick to retract and apologize as he is to--as he has said--"step in it." It's also because the Snow Show, Administration officials believe, is paying off. "He's not the sort of person who's going to be carefully scripted," says chief of staff Joshua Bolten...
...strength, moreso than I expected.” “Arielle Pensler showed a lot of spunk,” he added. Indeed, in her first collegiate tournament, Pensler had the chance to encounter All-American competition and avenge a searing loss to that competition in quick succession. Pensler lost her round-robin bout against second-team All-American Samantha Nemecek of Northwestern, but beat her soundly by a score of 15-6 in the second round of direct-elimination. “I was nervous before,” said Pensler, one of three freshman foilists...
Playing the toughest competition is something Harvard coach Katey Stone loves. “I like it—I think we have a very competitive schedule this year and I am looking forward to it,” she says. A quick examination of this year’s schedule reveals that most of the usual suspects are back on Harvard’s slate. But there are still a number of easy league games that may serve more as a chance to pad statistics and test young players than real competition. The Crimson will play Union, Quinnipiac...
...team behind a Harvard study that some have said links good health to wine drinking are warning against toasting the news too quickly. A group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging published a study in the online edition of Nature Wednesday which found that resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, extended the lives of obese mice. The article elicited a wave of enthusiastic responses from medical experts and extensive coverage in national newspapers, many of whom were quick to draw a link between red wine and good health. But one of the paper?...
...forgive this error. There are obviously mitigating circumstances at work which seem to afflict even seasoned professionals. Errors are the fertile fields from which learning grows. By the way, I didn’t find that quote out there anywhere—in that form, anyway. But a quick search for “learning from your mistakes” indicates that a few minutes with a simple thesaurus yields a phrase pretty similar to mine...