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Columbia, which had been ranked fourth in the country in early May, upset top-ranked Yale and third-ranked Harvard, blazing to a 5:52.48 win. The Bulldogs were .11 seconds behind at 5:52.59 for the place. The Crimson finished at 5:55.63 for the show...
...dozens of examples of Imus or his half-witted sidekicks saying obnoxious things about women, gays, Jews and minorities. Like calling Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, a 'boner-nosed, beanie-wearing Jew boy.' Or the New York Knicks 'chest-thumping pimps.' Or saying that people shouldn't get upset about serial gay killer Andrew Cunanan because 'he's just whacking off freaks!' Nobile tried to sell an article asking why media bigwigs like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather and some of your colleagues from TIME magazine feel comfortable appearing on a program that trades in this kind of swill...
...that wisdom was upset in 1994, when a Homo erectus skull from Indonesia was dated to 1.8 million years B.P. (before the present). And while that discovery was disputed by some scholars, a find reported in last week's Science should end all doubt. Cranial bones from two H. erectus individuals, discovered in Dmanisi, in the Republic of Georgia, have been dated to at least 1.7 million years B.P. What's more, researchers unearthed at the site primitive stone implements resembling those found at H. erectus digs in Africa, proving that fancy tools weren't the trigger for the departure...
...looking at the rise of China through the narrow framework of numbers of automobiles or Osprey helicopters doesn't come to grips with the country's sources of power. Defining a superpower in terms of economic and military size leaves out the power that comes from being able to upset the system, even when done unintentionally. A new definition of superpower must take account of who can upend an order that has lasted for centuries. On this score, China is a superpower...
With its vast scale, China can upset the global trading rules and security understandings that underwrite the current Western-led system. China's problems with economy, energy and the environment will be the world's problems, because if they are not taken care of, terrible consequences will spill across the map far from China. Perversely, the gap in material wealth and military technology separating China from the West is actually a source of leverage for Beijing. In the West the gap makes China look weak. But the gap actually makes China strong. China has the advantage--the underdog's advantage...