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...predominantly uninitiated, presumably possessing a representative pre-arrival familiarity with the trivia. I e-mailed 32 first-years with 10 three-choice questions and got 14 responses.You see, I’ve been going to The Game for about a decade now, since I was old enough to withstand the cold, missing only one or two in the interim. I was up at Baker Field every other year for the Columbia game while I still lived in New York, down at Princeton’s old stadium once in the late 90’s, at Penn for the heartbreaker...
...Gulf Coast communities pay salaries when tax payments dry up. One beneficiary: New Orleans, where Mayor Ray Nagin last week had to lay off 3,000 employees. At the same time, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman was publicly saying Congress should ante up for higher levees to withstand Category 4 or 5 hurricanes--a stance long taken by St. Bernard and Orleans parishes, where Katrina's winds and waves ripped away another 5 ft. of protection...
...Nagin, the attacks are just part of the price he's paid, even before Katrina, for being his own man. "It's the piling-on effect," he tells TIME. "I'm a very focused person and I'm able to withstand criticism and keep at the job at hand. Have I stepped on a lot of toes? Yes. But I think a lot of those who are bashing me and questioning my leadership skills are those who are unhappy with our new way of doing things in this city." Given New Orleans' venal reputation, Nagin's assertion is hardly...
...city's Reliant Center, refuge to thousands of Louisiana hurricane victims but built out of glass to withstand only a Category 3 storm, orange neon Do Not Enter signs are now posted on the doors. Across town at the Astrodome, also unsafe because of its glass room, families sit on piles of suitcases, waiting for yet-another transfer to yet-another safe zone. Houston city officials, mindful of the chaotic scenes from the Superdome and the New Orleans convention center, are offering evacuees a get-out-of-town pass on buses, with Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, as the destination. For some...
...laptops. Rather than engage them in a murderous price war, Sharp concentrates almost exclusively on ever larger TVs or on small, high-quality panels found in cell phones, car navigation systems and handheld game players like Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS. That tactic has enabled Sharp to withstand the margin pressure that's ravaging its rivals. Sharp's small-panel market, says Lehman Bros. analyst Yuki Sugi, is particularly lucrative, since its clients tend to place long-term orders for highly specialized, high-margin goods. Similarly, Sharp has profited richly from being the first company to bring extra...