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...becois, but the Bixi public bike system has been in place in Paris for more than a year. I'm sure Parisians would be miffed to find that a city - Montreal - that appropriated their language is now getting credit for a bike system, known in Paris as Vélib', that has already met with acclaim across Europe. Jonah Peppiatt, Boston...
...last season after leading his team to a 34-1 record and a top-10 national ranking. Oliver McNally is a 6’3” guard from San Francisco, Calif. He, too, led his team to great success in high school, winning three straight league and Division V state championships.Another impact freshman is Keith Wright, a 6’8” forward from Suffolk, Va. He is a powerful player who will immediately give Harvard an imposing frontcourt, and his senior year averages—20 points, 13 rebounds, and 3.5 blocks per game—indicate...
...while the Warren Court deliberated over its decision in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, popular discussion buzzed around everything from child psychology to the conceptual validity of “separate but equal institutions.” By the time that ruling was handed down, however, the decision boiled down to one fact: State and local laws that segregated American citizens on account of their race violated the constitutional promise of equality...
...fact that has been the elephant, or rather, donkey, in the room for the entire campaign has finally reared its ugly head. Comics across America have quietly despaired. From The Onion to campus-based ventures like On Harvard Time or Satire V, those who derive their livelihood from poking fun at power quail when they ponder the next four years. “You have to wait for all the dust to settle and look for patterns and things to joke about,” said the head writer of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, when asked...
...court would be momentous," the Rev. Albert Mohler told TIME over the weekend. Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and one of the nation's leading Evangelical voices, called such a "usurpation" hard to fathom. Imagine, he said, how much more controversial Roe v. Wade would be now had the court issued the decision after more than half the states had held statewide elections on the issue. "Tuesday's rulings have made it much more costly for any court to reach a conclusion in favor of gay marriage," he said...