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This Stanford political scientist specializes in minority politics, and is currently researching how neighborhood politics shape black racial and political attitudes...
This week, Cingular rolls out Research In Motion?s newest BlackBerry, the 8700c. While its shape suggests a return to a more conventional design after the venture into sleekness known as the 7100, the 8700 is actually a full-on redesign of the BlackBerry?s innards...
...pictures to an extensive and beautiful website. A team built a nine-foot Trojan horse for only a few hundred dollars’ worth of lumber and paint. The former owner of a cake-baking company (and a Lowell resident) approached HoCo about building a massive cake in the shape of the House. Hours of work from individual Lowellians saved thousands of dollars. The treasurer haggled with vendors and worked with other HoCos to get group discounts that slashed thousands of dollars from our costs on lighting and tents. None of these touches tapped into an endowment?...
...into this weekend all but dead in the Ivy race. After a disappointing loss to Princeton, the Crimson had drifted two games back of a Penn team that showed no sign of letting up. The annual two-team race between Harvard and Penn was dead before it even took shape. Yale, in fact—yes the same Yale that this writer picked to finish dead last in the league—had a better Ivy record than Harvard and a more realistic shot at contending for a league crown. And this dire situation wasn’t just media...
Even Central bankers charged with steering the global economy are permitted their pastimes. Greenspan loves to roam well beyond the facts for intellectual stimulation. He was deeply influenced by Rand's classic Atlas Shrugged, which helped shape his view that individuals acting in self-interest make for fair and honest markets. Although Bernanke wrote an unpublished novel in his younger days, his reading list swings to the pragmatic. He spent a recent vacation with a book about astronomy and has read volumes about Milton Friedman, whom he regards as the 20th century's greatest economist for his arguments...