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...cuts within the Harvard Athletic Ticket Office, undergraduate tickets to this weekend’s Harvard-Yale Game are only available across the river at the Murr Center. No easy dash to Memorial Hall like last year. Sure, you can get a friend to pick one up for you if you make a copy of your Harvard ID, but your friends probably don't want to walk over there either...
...making the trek across the river wasn’t enough, you also have to pay $15 for a ticket. Those were definitely free last year...
...story of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 is practically an American folktale: a miraculous emergency landing into the Hudson river, with Captain Chesley Sullenberger the hero in the cockpit. But journalist William Langewiesche takes a different view of the aborted Jan. 15 flight, which Sullenberger guided safely into the water after the Airbus 320 struck a flock of geese near LaGuardia Airport and lost all power. A Vanity Fair correspondent and former professional pilot, Langewiesche has written the most detailed account yet of the short flight, Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson. He spoke with...
...even if it wasn't a miracle, surely it was still extraordinary? In some ways it was extraordinary simply because of positioning: the airplane happened to be above a smooth river - an unlimited landing space - in good weather. It wasn't in some nightmarish situation one can easily imagine: over the mountains at night, [for instance]. This could have been beyond the possibility of recovery...
...Like Chang, Chanos claims a "wholesale fudge factor" in Chinese statistics, including unemployment numbers. "Economic activity isn't necessarily building wealth," Chanos argues. "If you have to keep putting up the same bridge every five years because it falls into the river, you're going to show a lot of GDP growth as you keep rebuilding the bridge [but] you're not generating any wealth for your countrymen...