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Whereas pressure from member schools had previously brought Murray in line when he spoke out against the television grid plan—some traditional opponents had gone so far as to drop the Quakers from their schedule—on Oct. 28, 1953 the eight schools agreed to strengthen their intra-conference calendars, implementing a round-robin schedule that guaranteed seven league games per season...
...general change to the system, which required students to drop off their application for tickets along with the money to the HAA nearly two weeks before game day—so that the tickets could be distributed equally—eliminated a lot of the waiting time. The proposals for this general change in the system were suggested as early as Oct. 8, 1953, when Dr. Martin H. Brownstein ’56 wrote a letter to The Crimson outlining a general plan...
...people have embraced some pretty gay songs over the years (the Village People's Y.M.C.A., Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax, the Queen catalog). You can interpret this as the gradual acceptance of gay culture or as the mainstream's enduring obliviousness to it. (The Village People did not drop by the YMCA to pump iron.) Now here's a song about coming out to Mom by a group named after a lesbian sex act. You'd think only Liza Minnelli could mistake them for straight. But Take Your Mama also happens to be the most complete pop tune...
...length for a bedtime story, screenwriter Steve Kloves tried a few changes to make this one 15 min. shorter than the first Potter film and 25 min. shorter than the second: take the story at a sauntering pace; ditch the Quidditch, mostly; and (we'd argue with this choice) drop the novel's most arresting scene, a flashback to an earlier band of Hogwarts students on a cross-species nighttime prowl...
...your dollar winds up buying less. Say you put $1,000 into TIPS, and inflation (as measured by the consumer price index) rings in at 2.5%. At the end of the year, you would have a face value of about 2.5% more, or $1,025. (If consumer prices drop, so does the face value, but never below your original investment.) The tradeoff is that TIPS carry lower interest rates than ordinary Treasuries. The 10-year benchmark Treasury recently yielded 4.72%, while the 10-year benchmark TIPS yielded just 1.99%. You come out ahead with TIPS only if their yield plus...