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...Club, a centuries-old social institution that claims five U.S. Presidents as members (one of whom suspiciously graduated Harvard decades before the club was founded). In late September, many first-years find themselves sitting on the sidelines while their roommates—often the ones who hail from New York or Greenwich—are whisked off to participate in a peculiar process with a funny name over at the Pudding’s 2 Garden Street clubhouse...
...teams have one of the oldest rivalries in college hockey, dating back to 1910 when the Crimson won 5-0 in New York City...
...players participating in this year’s program include Dallas D. Clark and Anthony E. Gonzalez of the Indianapolis Colts; Jason P. Taylor of the Miami Dolphins; Patrick W. Kearney, John D. Carlson, and Olindo F. Mare of the Seattle Seahawks; and Brandon Moore of the New York Jets. The Seahawks and Colts are the most heavily represented teams, with four players each...
Whether bitter or sweetened, the tea is winning admirers. According to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, roughly 1 in 5 adult Americans identifies with the Tea Party movement, which scored its first major victory last month when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat long held by the late Democrat Ted Kennedy. Brown's promises to bolster U.S. defenses against terrorists and block Obama's health care reforms gave him a blinding Tea Party aura, the glow of which sent fear through the Administration and fried the circuits of Congress. But you can no more trace that...
...protection laws in the country, California's regulations governing the individual health insurance market are not very strict. Insurers are free to set whatever rates they want, so long as they spend 70% of premiums paying claims, a threshold that's lower, for example, than those in Washington, New York and New Jersey. California is also what's known as a "file and use state," meaning insurers can increase rates in the individual market without state approval. The state can later act to rein in rates or revoke an insurer's license, but this rarely happens. Most states...