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...combination of Wasp reticence and Texas canniness gives him an old-fashioned feel. If Clinton was often too clever by half, in Disraeli's famous phrase, Bush sometimes deliberately seems only half-clever. But who do we like more: the smartest kid in class who sits in the first row and answers every question, or the fellow who sits in the back row and surprises you when he gets the right answer? I'm sure George Bush never sat in the first row in any class he was ever in. And I'd be surprised if Bill Clinton ever didn...
...administrators who have to deal directly with the most reckless imbibing. In studies through the 1990s by the Harvard School of Public Health, the percentage of college students who reported binge drinking within the previous two weeks remained steady at 44%. (Binging was defined as five drinks in a row for boys and four for girls.) In an age in which campus officials are increasingly seen as proxy parents, this is worrying to them. Legal liability is of particular concern, especially after M.I.T. last year chose to avoid a lawsuit by paying out $6 million to the parents...
...with Kristin Hawkins for five rounds before knocking her off with succedaneum, which means "one who succeeds to the place of another." (Those bee people are an ironic lot.) But there are a million tales from the spelling bee--for instance, the bizarre happenstance of seven contestants in a row making errors as soon as national TV coverage began, before Abhijith (A-b-h-i-j-i-t-h) Eswarappa broke the streak. Or the sad tale of Lauren Fowler, who, for the second straight year, went out on an item of Italian cuisine. Last year it was biscotti; this...
...garlic. China then threatened to halt imports of Korean polyethylene and cell phones, as it did in an earlier garlic dispute. In April, South Korea caved, agreeing to buy Chinese garlic and resell it overseas. Value of the deal to Korean growers: at least $6.3 million. Cost of the row to Korea's polyethylene and cell-phone industries: about $100 million...
...games at then-No.5 Minn.-Duluth and its 2001 opener against then-No. 4 St. Lawrence, Harvard stood at 8-6-0 overall, and the team's NCAA hopes were looking dim. But then Botterill's play took off. The Crimson reeled off seven victories in a row, including a stretch in which Botterill netted hat tricks against the three traditional women's ice hockey powers-Northeastern, Providence, and New Hampshire...