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These and other questions are answered in You Shall Know Our Velocity. Like Heartbreaking Work, it is a book about mourning, but it eschews any of the metafictional skylarking of the earlier book; Eggers is through kidding around. Our heroes are Will and Hand, two twentynothing layabouts from Wisconsin who decide to fly around the world for a week, handing out money to strangers. They recently lost their friend Jack in a car accident, and in an oblique way not even they really understand, the trip is an attempt to deal with that loss, as well as with a more...
...Harvard University athletic program was ranked 41st by Sports Illustrated in its Oct. 7 “America’s Best Sports Colleges” issue, just behind such traditional athletic powerhouses as Virginia, Wisconsin and Penn Sate...
Harvard went 16-5 in singles and 11-4 in doubles while facing nationally-ranked opponents from Brown, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin, Michigan and William & Mary...
...with all that money?" One big gubernatorial trend with national implications is the decline of the so-called Frostbelt Republican Governor. In the 1990s some of the biggest names in the G.O.P. came from this tier: John Engler of Michigan, William Weld of Massachusetts, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey, to name a few. These Governors aided the G.O.P. in two fundamental ways: they helped control redistricting to make it more favorable for Republicans, and they helped moderate the national G.O.P., setting the stage for the "compassionate conservatism" selling point of George...
...instituted a hiring freeze last spring that did not end until this July, when Wisconsin’s state legislature approved a budget that included funding for University of Wisconsin schools...