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...wind picked up a little bit, so the start was a bit rough,” said junior and varsity stroke George Kitovitz. But by the 1200-meter mark, when they were a length up on Navy, he said, they could relax a bit and just “didn’t look back...
...Penn quickly squashed any ideas of a comeback when Kaitlin Farmer scooped up a groundball near the Crimson crease and went coast-to-coast, running the length of the field virtually untouched to net her only score of the game. The goal seemed to take the wind out of Harvard’s sails, and the Quakers put in two more in the remaining minutes to round out the scoring. Time of possession was essentially equal, yet the Crimson was unable to take advantage. Harvard was outshot, 35-16, and converted only 1-of-6 free-position shots, compared...
Only the AARP set may recall that movie women used to be on an equal footing with men. Female characters were at the center of some of the top-grossing films in history, from Gone With the Wind to The Sound of Music and Titanic (sort of). Now they mostly ornament the margins. If they're lucky...
...these books claim to help empower women, but they wind up doing exactly the opposite. Most egregiously, they exaggerate women's financial foibles at a time when we are making more money than ever before. While still not on a par with men's, women's salaries were 77% of men's in 2005, compared with 65% in 1985. These financial frenemies go on to suggest that our misguided habits are the root of this overblown "problem," discounting the economic forces that deflate women's earnings in the first place--things like unpaid family leave and wage stagnation for women...
...Nisbett, sees things differently: the world isn't a length of rope but a vast, closed chain, incomprehensibly complex and ever changing. When you look at life from this second perspective, some unlikely connections reveal themselves. You're forced to retreat from the den of libertarianism and sniff the wind, to wake up when someone in Khartoum or Mogadishu twitches in his sleep...