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...someone placed a memo in her mailbox that listed her base salary-about $44,000 a year-and that of three male colleagues of equal if not lesser tenure and title. They earned from $53,000 to $62,000. "I was floored," says Ledbetter, 70. "I just didn't know...
...length to the No. 6 Huskies in the first 30 strokes, and a particularly strong Northeastern varsity built the lead to three-quarters of a length by the 500-meter mark. After the settle, Harvard relied—as it has all season—on a powerful, methodical base speed to creep up on the Huskies...
...second 1000 meters, however, the momentum was Harvard’s for the taking, and the Crimson took it all. Harvard sliced the six-seat margin to two in the third 500 meters, taking further advantage of its strong base speed to set up a dramatic final 500 meters. As the two boats picked up the rating near the MIT boathouse, the Crimson increased the pressure and eventually pulled even with Northeastern in the final 100 meters of the race...
...Harvard’s second varsity crew raced similarly to the varsity eight against its Yale and Princeton counterparts. The Crimson came off the line strong, keeping up with the Bulldogs and the Tigers but ultimately failed to establish a firm base cadence from which to contest the rest of the race...
...sing Miley Cyrus songs with the top down. Now, they both can share in the LOLcatz.The intersection of the Web and popular culture has birthed a new “roflculture,” fostering new genres, new celebrities, and a new type of audience. While the meme remains based in the ridiculous that often becomes popular by chance, the LOLomenon has seemingly elevated it to the status of a new—albeit somewhat accidentally created—genre. Online, the new culture is “doing a billion things all at the same time...