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...from Harvard Law School may receive when Booker gives the Class Day speech tomorrow. Just one year after graduating from Yale Law School in 1997, Booker moved into a $547 per month apartment in one of Newark’s worst public housing projects, a massive, mud-colored, 300-unit building that was demolished in December 2007. Despite the fact that he is staking his political career on turning around the fortunes of a troubled city, Booker himself hails from a predominantly white, neighborhood in suburban Bergen County. His pedigree is glaringly elite: after graduating from Stanford, where he also...
...Corrado, Carol, and Lawrence Slifman (1999). "Decomposition of Productivity and Unit Costs," Leaving the Board American Economic Review, vol. 89 (May, Papers and Proceedings...
...something we tried to show the freshmen early,” junior captain Nicole Rhodes said. “This year, our team was extremely unified.”Indeed, while underclassmen provided much of the offensive firepower, veterans served as the bedrock of a solid defensive unit that allowed a league-best 2.18 goals per game. Sophomore Lizzy Nichols, an All-Ivy First Team pick, and Rhodes, an Honorable Mention selection, anchored the back line in front of the league’s top goalkeeper. Sophomore Lauren Mann, who picked up an All-Ivy Second Team...
...There is considerable evidence that some of those voters are letting their emotions do the talking-and following in a long tradition by doing so. According to ABC News' polling unit, in the spring 1992, only 63% of Democrats who voted for someone other than Bill Clinton in the primaries that year said they would vote for Clinton over George H. W. Bush that fall. In 1996, 66% of Republicans who voted for someone other than Bob Dole in the G.O.P. primary said they would support Dole against Clinton that fall. Al Gore suffered the same apparent dropout problem; only...
...three hours after the quake, dozens of SAR volunteers in red fleeces, all-weather pants and hiking boots are gathered in a parking lot in Hveragerdi, waiting for orders from their command center. Emil Jonsson, an electrician by trade from a suburb of Reykjavik, got a call from his unit within 15 minutes of the tremor. He has already finished going through houses in the area to assess any damage. "The houses were okay, but everything inside had fallen," says Jonsson. "Now I'm waiting for another...