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...competition, held at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), featured five hours of algorithmic revelry at the end of which Harvard’s three-man team placed second, coming short of securing a ticket to the world finals slated for next March in Tokyo. The winner of the competition, MIT, correctly solved seven out of eight programming questions; the Harvard team scored four...
...maddening that there's no cost for being wrong, even when it translates into thousands of people dead and billions of dollars down the drain. In our culture of value-free celebrity, in which a famous ax murderer equals a famous actress equals a famous Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adelman and Perle have merely earned another 15 minutes as hot guests on the talk shows. They have reason to be pleased, having deserted the Bush Administration five minutes ahead of the other rats. But they should try not to show their pleasure...
This election proved that it pays to spend big(ger). The average House winner burned through about $1 million on the stump--and the candidate who spent the most won in 93% of House races. The most expensive victory was, oddly, one of the Dems' safe bets: New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who won a second term with 67% of the vote--and $35.9 million...
...inside the National Gallery of Victoria, a different race is on. Already much of the work is out of its yellow starting boxes - one intriguingly marked mug pop - and seven years after the artist's death, the betting is that his retrospective, "Howard Arkley," will be a winner. Arkley's 25-year career connected comic strips and Conceptualism, Surrealism and suburbia, punk rock and Postmodernism - all with the zip of his airbrush, blurring the line between rarefied art and popular taste in the process. He was able to do this by painting the world most Australians know. In the final...
...presidency, though this was not the case last year. In December 2005, committee chair and vice-presidential candidate Tara Gadgil ’07 finished in third place with running mate John F. Voith III ’07. Current president, John S. Haddock ’07, the winner of the election, was a SAC vice chair.Petersen, whose shaggy hair makes him noticeable around campus, would not say if he planned to run for any office.“Right now I’m focusing on my responsibilities and priorities on the Student Advisory Committee...