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Radliffe gives new meaning to the wisdom of the Beach Boys. With her skill on the river, golden-stater and sophomore Rebekah Kharrazi is making the Black and White wish they all could be California girls.A native of Alameda, Kharrazi was a key contributor to the success of the women’s varsity lightweights a sesaon ago, as the varsity eight took home a silver medal at Eastern Sprints and grabbed a bronze at IRas in 2006.And she did it in just one year.Starting off her freshman season stroking for the varsity eight, Kharrazi rowed in the lead position...
...Republican overconfidence and Ford's charisma. Political observers say Republicans - and even some Democrats - were all too certain that no amount of support from national Democrats could convince conservative Tennesseans to send a young black candidate from a family tainted by political corruption to the Senate. Against all political wisdom and warnings that he was throwing money away, Ford, who had no primary opponents, launched his campaign in April, even while Corker and the other Republican primary candidates launched ugly attacks against each other...
...Fear a Jury of Your Peers Most people think that juries are more likely than judges to let defendants off the hook. The conventional wisdom, however, may be dead wrong
...according to this year’s Ig Noble Prize for improbable research recipient for Literature, Princeton psychology professor Daniel M. Oppenheimer. His paper, “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly,” found that contrary to prevailing wisdom among undergraduates, readers are more likely to think that clear, concise writers are more intelligent. The study was published last year in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. According to Oppenheimer’s paper, almost two thirds of the Princeton students polled admitted to using a thesaurus when writing...
...become conventional wisdom in Washington's foreign policy circles that "staying the course" in Iraq is untenable. That's why much of Washington and the media is focused on the secret deliberations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, initiated by congressional Republicans and endorsed by the White House. The panel, headed by former former Secretary of State and Bush family consigliere James Baker, will not report until after November's elections, which will avoid a serious reexamination of Iraq policy being subsumed in partisan bickering...