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...growing, you're not in a recession, right? We all know that." On Friday, Paulson ushered through a $168 billion stimulus package that he says will send checks to 130 million people in the U.S. by the end of summer and add "seven-tenths of a percent to GDP, more or less...
...five Ivy losses virtually disqualify a team from contending for the conference title—Harvard, led by its junior core of Housman, Harris, and Andrew Pusar, played a woeful first half offensively and defensively, spotting the Bears a 37-16 cushion. The Crimson shot just 22 percent from the floor and logged one assist against eight turnovers, while Brown converted field goals at a 56 percent clip. The team’s youngsters, most notably Blankenau and Fitzgerald, helped to keep the deficit in the 20-point range down the stretch. “We dug ourselves a deep...
...their friends’ private information, according to a University of Virginia study. Adrienne Felt, a senior at the University of Virginia who conducted the study, looked at the top 150 Facebook applications and what information they require in order to run. She concluded that only 9.3 percent of these applications required private information—yet Facebook currently gives all applications access to the information. Felt said that application developers can see a user’s birthday, religion, sexual orientation, relationship status, past schools and photos—though not a person’s contact information...
...program was used in St. Louis during the 1990s. The program ran for 18 months, and overall 510 guns were removed from these houses. Perhaps even more impressive than the number of guns recovered is the percentage of households that agreed to have their homes searched; a whopping 98 percent. It would be a shame for these people to fear searches because of the possibility of facing charges for anything they say or do during these visits...
...issue with his policy positions, Sequeira implies that he is not a true “Indian,” whatever that means. When she writes that Indian-Americans supported Kerry over Bush in 2004 by a ratio of four-to-one, are we to assume that the 20 percent that went to Bush aren’t Indian either? Is liberalism an inherently “Indian” trait? Even as the majority of Indians are liberal, what bearing does this have on Mr. Jindal’s political beliefs? Is he not allowed to believe what...