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...week ago, the team engaged in a little intrasquad East-West rivalry, a foot race for coastal supremacy. Under Walsh’s direction, a piggyback element found its way into the race’s rulebook. A casual onlooker, upon entering the compound, might have happened upon 215-pound All-Ivy catcher Schuyler O. Mann ’05 atop the back of first baseman W. Rob Wheeler ’05. Team West suffered when Wheeler stumbled. “He did a complete swan-dive face-plant,” according to Salsgiver, and Mann...
...many times do I have to tell you? Take your foot off the gas!" It's 9:30 a.m. on the first day of racing school, and my instructor and co-pilot, Paul Mazzacane, looks as if he's about to blow a fuse. We're on a skid pad, a circular track slicked down with water, and I'm speeding around it so fast that the rear tires lose traction and the car goes into a fishtail. For most folks, this would be the time to let go of the wheel and pray (which is my instinct...
Fortunately, these common beliefs are misconceptions--only a small part of the explanation of why the poor are poor. In all corners of the world, the poor face structural challenges that keep them from getting even their first foot on the ladder of development. Most societies with the right ingredients--good harbors, close contacts with the rich world, favorable climates, adequate energy sources and freedom from epidemic disease--have escaped extreme poverty. The world's remaining challenge is not mainly to overcome laziness and corruption, but rather to take on the solvable problems of geographic isolation, disease and natural hazards...
These days, Summers is seldom mentioned in the press without some reference to the numerous public scandals that have forced his foot into his mouth since those early days in Washington. Over the course of the last six weeks, as public outrage over Summers’ remarks suggesting differences of “intrinsic ability” between men and women continued to snowball, the media has not given Summers a single day off. Most of the nation’s major news dailies have published editorials on the “women in science” scandal...
...police report says Maybury-Lewis attempted to shove the victim away from him and in the process, due to his advantage in height, struck her in the face and on the shoulder. The height difference between the two is over a foot, according to court records...