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...quickest way to find out what college kids care about these days is to listen to what they're laughing about. And on a recent Friday night, nine Brown University students who make up The Brown Stand-up Comics were drawing laughs from some 200 of their schoolmates who had paid $1 each to crowd into a basement lecture hall on the Providence campus to hear jokes about race, sex, pop culture and their generation's ambivalent feelings about current events. "My friends are fasting for Darfur, and I'm like, is that like Ramadan?" riffed Christine Sunu...
...from his hometown of Shanty Bay, Ont. to Baltimore to devote himself to the sport.Harvard coach Frank Sullivan liked what he saw, inviting McCrone to join the basketball team—a squad that the senior was a part of his freshman and sophomore years.TO THE MACWeitzen was the quickest of the three to leave his old team, quitting the football squad before the academic year even started.“I got here and I realized that I got really caught up in the recruiting aspect of Harvard and playing Division I football,” Weitzen says...
...economic cycle that tends to favor the biggest of the big. Short-term interest rates are up, which is especially hard on small companies that do not enjoy the same access to cheap borrowing as large ones. As higher rates slow the economy, earnings at small firms should decelerate quickest. And as earnings slow, the dividends that blue chips pay will become increasingly attractive...
...willing to formulate policies that go beyond the August 2005 Energy Policy Act, which is glaringly lacking in bold conservation measures. Contrary to Vice President Richard B. Cheney’s belief that conservation is merely a “personal virtue,” one of the quickest ways for the U.S. to cutback on imports of oil is to stop using so much of it. Even with less than a full term left in office, there is much Bush could accomplish in immediately and realistically cutting America’s “addiction...
...Parabolic (hourglass-shaped) skis used for the past 15 years have allowed better control, so more traditional speed racers are entering this event. Only an inspection is permitted ? About 50 sets of open and closed gates SLALOM 720 ft. (220 m) It's the shortest course, with the quickest turns. Racers use short skis and body armor to protect against the impact of gates. Each skier makes two consecutive runs down the same slope on different courses. The lowest combined score wins. Only an inspection is permitted ? 55 to 75 gates, including flushes (three or four closed gates...