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Unfortunately, the deal-breakers squaring off on opposite sides of the North Atlantic are among the least affected by the possibility of rising temperatures and swelling seas. According to projections by the United Nations, Bangladesh could lose up to 16 percent of its land area to the Indian Ocean. Semi-arid parts of North Africa and Southern Europe could become deserts. But agriculture in Northern Europe and the North Great Plains would most likely boom in the event of warming--a longer growing season coupled with easier shopping due to less ice in the Great Lakes means the northern latitudes...
Competition between different classes for the limelight of a city explains the endless rivalries present in baseball cities such as New York and Chicago. Even The Crimson's rivalry with a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square organization can be attributed to different types of writers jousting for prominence on campus...
...heard once that cultural references to Harvard far outstripped those of Yale, probably because of Harvard's pervasive control of Hollywood. The Harvard Lampoon, that semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, has become somewhat of a feeder system for many of television's best (and worst) comedies. Yale-bashing jokes abound in "The Simpsons," as do jokes about Brown, Radcliffe and other illustrious institutions of advanced study...
This is the also slow season for concerts, which might explain why any semi-famous person is selling out shows. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones I can understand-this is their hometown after all. But Bruce Hornsby...
...design representative institutions to represent semi-sovereign entities, such as states. The electoral system is designed to be a compromise between individual votes and states' rights," he said...