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...ructions in Washington and Wall Street stole the headlines from the Conservatives' annual conference, held this year in Birmingham, Britain's unlovely second city. The Labour party, divided and unpopular, had held their own yearly get-together the week before. It managed a show of unity behind beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown, securing a boost in the polls that halved the Tories' lead from 20 points to 10. Cameron and his colleagues planned to use their conference to win back the initiative and the limelight. That chance was torpedoed when the House of Representatives rejected the bailout package on Sept...
Just a few weeks after Harvard stole back the top spot in the U.S. News college rankings, the University has been ranked number one again—this time for its brand. The rankings, released earlier this month by Global Language Monitor, a company that uses quantitative methods to analyze the impact of language on society, are based on the number of times colleges and universities’ names were mentioned in both print and electronic global media over the past nine months. Indicating that prestige and media coverage seem to be correlated, six of the universities on the Global...
...story, the multibillionaire (Forbes just estimated his worth at nearly $50 billion) with an aw-shucks aura. There is the Buffett who insists on carrying his own luggage even when flying by private jet. The Buffett who as a teenager got C's and D's in school and stole golf equipment from Sears, yet also filed his first tax return, for $7, deducting his wristwatch and bicycle as expenses in his newspaper-delivery business. And there is the Buffett who desperately craves attention and gets excited when a porn star says on her website that he's her hero...
...competed in probably the greatest playing of the Game in the storied history of its rivalry with the aforementioned sucky Bulldogs. I was inspired by the halftime exploits of a now-famous former Sports Editor, Timothy J. McGinn ’07. He rushed onto the field and stole Handsome Dan, the ugly bulldog of a mascot for Eli’s bunch of nitwits and smelly people. He ran and ran and took that Dan all the way up to the top of the Stand(s). It was Picasso at his finest hour, Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel...
Dunster’s roast was at the center of a small scandal last May when a group of students stole the remains of the butchered goats and impaled them on an Eliot House gate...