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Bose’s style is best described as “dry.” Do not pick up this book expecting to find the literary style of David McCullough...
...over the last two days, polls from the Washington Post/ABC News, the Pew Research Center and Gallup, all have shown a Democratic advantage on the so-called generic ballot - asking voters whether they will pick the Democratic or Republican congressional candidate in their district - narrowing. Democratic leads in key Senate races in Rhode Island and Montana have disappeared, leaving party strategists less optimistic about their chances of winning the Senate. Aside from expected seat pickups in Ohio and Pennsylvania, "everything else is questionable," said one party strategist working on Senate races, with races in Missouri, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee...
...experiencing what one major researcher calls "unprecedented outrage" at perceived insults to research and rationality, ranging from the alleged influence of the Christian right on Bush Administration science policy to the fanatic faith of the 9/11 terrorists to intelligent design's ongoing claims. Some are radicalized enough to publicly pick an ancient scab: the idea that science and religion, far from being complementary responses to the unknown, are at utter odds--or, as Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has written bluntly, "Religion and science will always clash." The market seems flooded with books by scientists describing a caged death match between...
...performance for senior captain Laura Odorczyk’s last collegiate game, the Crimson seemed to put its past troubles behind it and made the league’s top team earn its title.“Throughout the course of the season, the team has been taught to pick themselves up and keep going,” head coach Erica Walsh said. “It’s a credit to the character of the team. They’ve been fantastic to that end. They’re not going to stop battling even if their opponents...
...same Penn they were ten years ago,” Murphy said. “There’s a lot more parity in our league.”That parity has been evident throughout the season. Only three teams have lived up to preseason expectations. Harvard, picked first, continues to be near the top, and Columbia and Dartmouth, picked last and next-to-last, respectively, are exactly where predicted. But first-place Yale was predicted to finish fifth (despite getting a pair of first-place votes) and Princeton was chosen sixth.Penn, the second-place pick, would be in that...