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Fellow undergraduates, for the first time in our lifetimes, a horse will win the Triple Crown. Smarty Jones is far and away the best horse in the field. I have watched every Kentucky Derby and Preakness since 1988 (OK, I missed the 1993 Preakness on account of a torrid love affair with a woman named Veronique in Buenos Aires). But never can I remember a horse being this dominant. If the field is only five or six at the Belmont Stakes, Smarty will become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed captured racing’s Holy Grail...
...make up for it with several reality projects of varying degrees of dubiousness. Besides its "American Idol" spoof, "Superstar USA," which just debuted, there'll be "Studio 7," a quiz show whose contestants spend a week living together before the big game, where they'll hopefully have torrid affairs with one another just like we've always imagined those "Jeopardy" contestants to do. There's "Big Man on Campus," a college dating show a la "The Bachelor." Call it "The Bachelor's Degree." On "Wannabes," 10 actresses compete to win a starring role on... a WB show. If neither show...
...Jiabao have taken on new portent in global financial markets. The fast-growing Chinese economy, the world's sixth largest, is experiencing irrational exuberance, mainland style, and it's up to Wen to reassure everyone that Beijing can ease the country's growth rate from last year's torrid (unofficial) rate of 11.5% to single-digit levels?and do so without causing a crash that slashes China's demand for imports...
...season has treated the Crimson (18-15-1, 11-5 Ivy) to its fair share of highlights and lowlights, from a torrid seven-game Ivy win streak in early April to a disappointing series loss at Yale soon after. For the first half of the season, the team owned the Red Rolfe division lead. It’s spent the rest of the time trying to snatch it back from Dartmouth...
...that certain individuals might better display their originality. Hence the student body now faces not alone examinations which prove to the office that he has in a measure heeded the discourse and developed the hints of his instructor but those which show just how well he is able in torrid weather and with a mind fatigued from the monotony and length of the college year to do mental tricks for the edification of his faculty Examinations in English literature, for instance, are so arranged that the professor can eventually stand before some conference of wits and say. "I asked...