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...reading “On the Road” for a seminar (this is more of a testament to sleep deprivation than an indictment of Jack Kerouac).But had I been there, I would have asked the former Vice President to offer a solution to another pressing issue: the woeful state of the current Ivy League football standings. After all, Gore was roommates with Tommy Lee Jones ’69 at Harvard, and Jones was an All-Ivy offensive tackle for the Crimson’s 1968 undefeated team that “beat” Yale, 29-29.If...
...unapologetic liberal, Franken has devoted much of the campaign to attacking Coleman as a Bush lapdog, especially on Iraq and the economy - not a bad strategy against any Republican, given the President's woeful job approval numbers. But Franken and his team spent the summer in a defensive crouch, explaining how, in contemporary comedy, a rape joke is really just a joke, and how swear words are part of the basic vocabulary. As if that weren't enough, the Democrat became embroiled in a "scandal" over having not paid all of his state taxes from his days as an itinerant...
...Saudi Arabia is still some distance from being an investor's mecca. The kingdom ranks a woeful 137th on the World Bank's list when measured by ability to enforce contracts. For many investors, that will be a red flag. Saudi Arabia has also fared poorly on other lists that investors parse: it has slipped to 80th place on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2008, from 70th in 2005. By that reckoning, Saudi Arabia is one of the most corrupt places in the Middle East...
...second video clips and a ceaseless stream of “Flavor of Love” spin-offs have supplanted the simpler entertainments in the battle for the attentions of America’s youth, it has become very easy—too easy—to issue a woeful jeremiad about our culture’s inexorable backslide. It seems clear that active measures to adapt literacy education to the changing tastes of our youth would prove altogether more effectual than the noisy resignation to predicted intellectual decline that others have been so quick to express. As such...
...degrees are nothing new to O’Donnell Field in April. But a one-win season and, so far, cellar-dweller status in the Ivy League have been quite a shock to the perennially-contending Harvard baseball team. The Crimson (1-18, 0-4 Ivy) continued its woeful season at the plate and watched suddenly hot Columbia (9-16, 5-1) thrive in wet, frigid weather yesterday. The Lions swept the doubleheader, taking the first game, 2-0, behind a complete game shutout from Joe Scarlata, and hitting their way to a 10-2 rout in the nightcap...