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...When I turned to your invention of the Year [Nov. 10], my eye fell upon a beautiful young woman wrapped in a closely typed aura of sheer unpredictability; so I thought it wise to put the record straight. My wife got there first - decades ago. Peter Terry, Johannesburg...
...think the country is ready for an activist government with a much more liberal agenda than we have seen in recent decades. This election result was largely a reaction to an ineffective conservative Administration. Obama and a Democrat-dominated Congress will be wise to maintain some moderation in their policies, or they could provoke a shift back to the right. Mike Hall, Boise, Idaho...
...Obama is as wise as he seems, non-Americans will appreciate soon enough that he has just been elected President of the United States, not Secretary-General of the United Nations. Of course, every American President knows that his decisions have consequences for places far from the borders of the U.S., like the famous butterfly of chaos theory whose beating wings can cause a storm thousands of miles away. Obama and his advisers are doubtless sincere when they say that they want to restore America's reputation for decency and competence. But constitutionally and in every other way that really...
...court jester of the Ivy League,” that would have been much better used on Dartmouth. Columbia has a fearsome defense, and if it can maintain that part of its game and pick up a star or two on offense, the Ancient Eight will be wise not to take the Lions lightly next season...
...undersized and strength-wise really couldn’t compete at my position,” Ajayi says. “I was weighing 217, and I remember mostly this guy Nik Sobic [’07]. He must have been around 6’5, 300-310, somewhere in that range. [I would] give him a good look, even though I’m completely outmatched as far as talent, size, strength...