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...antitrust exemption, which has been on the books for more than 80 years, if the sport doesn't adopt harsher drug rules. But some experts think Congress is bluffing. "Why would they do that?" asks Chicago-based sports-marketing consultant Marc Ganis. "It's an arrow in their quiver to say they'll pull it. If they did, what would they then have to hold over baseball...
...child." I couldn't help but think back to Bush's interview with Tucker Carlson in the now defunct Talk magazine, where the Texas governor mockingly mimicked the death row appeals of born-again convict Karla Faye Tucker. "Please don't kill me," said Bush with a condescending quiver. And the riff on gang violence? It's fine to take on gangs, but I couldn't help but notice Bush's promotion of programs "ranging from literacy to sports" and the standing ovation it drew from House Republicans who spent the Clinton 90s laughing at their anti-gang initiative, Midnight...
...disease research, and its staff understand that they are part of a vital bulwark. "Hong Kong is a very strategic place to be for emerging-infectious-disease work," says Yuen. And when the next would-be superbug pops up, at least scientists will have one more arrow in their quiver...
Most important thing you’ve learned at Harvard so far: That my West Coast rap style makes the East Coast girls quiver...
...major papers have been cited (by one count) 980 times. And according to Can Kilic, a graduate student working with Arkani-Hamed, the physicist has created new fields simply by doing his own research. The recently appointed Harvard professor is such a genius that even capable graduate students quiver in his presence. “It sometimes takes a week or two to understand [something he said]. You don’t understand in real time with Nima,” says Rakhi N. Mahbubani, a fourth-year doctoral candidate...