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...NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson cruised into the history books. With his fifth-place finish in the Ford 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Johnson clinched the top spot in The Chase, NASCAR's ten-race playoff season that crowns the overall Sprint Cup champion. Johnson, 34, became the first racer in NASCAR history to win four straight titles in its top circuit, a feat that fuels the inevitable question: is this guy the greatest racer of all-time? Johnson took a victory lap in New York City, and sat down with TIME to talk about his training regimen...
...While we very much wanted to stay on through ten years as Masters, we feel that with Jay's new responsibilities in University Hall and the escalating demands of Cheryl's job we are unable to put in the time or do the job the way we think it ought to be done,” they wrote. “Cabot deserves better than we feel we can give it at this time, and so we think it is best that we step aside and allow the College to bring in some new blood...
Eliot House Masters Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted announced their intention to step down as heads of the Eliot household in June after ten years at the helm in a Thanksgiving Day letter--uhh, narrative?--to the House. (The missive was a quarter of the required length of the final paper this FlyBy correspondent is currently attempting to write. And substantially more entertaining...
...least, with House crew--offers: “'Mr. Eliot, you see, this is our tenth year, and the third in which we hold the Agassiz Cup. I don’t think we should tempt fortune further...we have had such a wonderful run here for the past ten years, that to ask you and the other Gods'--he liked that a lot!--'to ask you and the other Gods for more'--he loved that!--'might be foolish…I mean, reckless, irritating too…You know, hubris and all that stuff?...
...realize it's an odd time to lobby for higher prices. We're coming off the worst recession in a quarter century. One in ten Americans is out of work and plenty of people feel like they need low prices to be able to buy anything...