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...It’s hard to find sources for resources for graduate research,” says Roger W. Brockett, professor of electrical engineering and computer science. “The federal government decided a few years back it was going to make universities pay more for its graduate students...
Yale won the tournament with a combined 89 points, 43 of them coming from the A-team that finished second overall. Roger Williams was the top school in the A division, beating out the Bulldogs by two points. But it was its B-team that didn’t fare as well, finishing with 57 points that moved the Hawks down to third place...
...made about the seriousness of head injuries suffered by football players and the support that the NFL provides for them in the aftermath. These discussions concern both long-retired players and those still taking the field today, and they reached a high point in Nov. 2009, when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the two chairmen of the league’s brain injury committee had resigned. This announcement came just one month after Goodell faced questioning from the House Judiciary Committee...
Tied for third are Andrew Jackson and William Taft. Old Hickory's most memorable appointment was Roger Taney, the Chief Justice who delivered the majority opinion in the infamous Dred Scott decision, which held that slaves could never be U.S. citizens. Taft has the distinction of cramming more appointments into four years in office than any other President since Washington in his first term. He got six out of six confirmed and (after losing re-election in 1912) was able to see the process from the other side: in 1921 he became the first person to serve as both President...
...Roger Lowenstein on former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan: "Greenspan's was a Rousseauean vision of markets as untainted social organisms--evolved, as it were, from a state of nature. (It overlooked the obvious point that markets were also human constructs--made...