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...dual meet record was not stellar this year because of injury and other setbacks," DeNunzio said. "But, I would sacrifice every dual meet for the end result. A third place finish at Easterns was truly an accomplishment...
Despite his less-than-stellar senior thesis and rejection from the GSAS, Ashbery returned to Cambridge in 1989 as Norton Professor of Poetry, a position he retained until 1990. The Norton professorship is one of the country's most prominent guest lectureships: Ashbery was following in the footsteps of such literary luminaries as Harold Bloom, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Robert Frost, and Thornton Wilder, as well as fellow graduates like Eliot and cummings...
...Despite his less-than-stellar senior thesis and rejection from the GSAS, Ashbery returned to Cambridge in 1989 as Norton Professor of Poetry, a position he retained for a year. The Norton professorship is one of the country's most prominent guest lectureships: Ashbery was following in the footsteps of such literary luminaries as Harold Bloom, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Robert Frost and Thornton Wilder, as well as fellow graduates like Eliot and cummings...
...stellar basketball career will last at least one more year...
Warren Buffett, the investor and head of Berkshire Hathaway, noted some of these trends two years ago, when his Geico insurance subsidiary doubled its projected 4% profit margin because the number of claims was decreasing. Last year margins were well over the target again. Buffett warned that such stellar results would not persist because they would soon invite competition. That's what has happened, and now he expects the industry's margins to contract as insurers cut prices to battle for market share--bad news if you own the stocks but not if you're a policyholder...