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...less than three weeks, about 400 ritzy New Yorkers will board a private six-car train in Grand Central Station and sip wine as they rumble through the blooming spring countryside.After about an hour, a squad of school buses will pick them up and shuttle them to the elite Greenwich Polo Club, where they will enjoy a champagne reception and a buffet lunch.Around 4 p.m., they will take to the open grounds and situate themselves for an afternoon of laid-back Ivy League polo.There will be almost 70 ponies. But no college kids to ride them. That?...
...Deciding which cases to review is “more mechanical than people think,” Breyer said. “If you were to go through my stack tomorrow, you’d be surprised at how much agreement there would be in the cases you would pick for the court to hear and the cases I would pick,” Breyer said. He added that because of the specificity of the criteria used by the court, choosing which cases to review is fairly straightforward. The main criterion used by the court is whether a case would...
...physics majors out there, I hear it has to do with the Magnus effect. Or maybe the Bernoulli effect. When it works, it replicates the desired effect of a well-crafted pick-up line: it makes the recipient go weak in the knees...
...like Medicare are efficient, effective, and popular. Healthcare is a perfect issue for showing voters how a public program can correct the excesses of the private market.Tomasky presents a compelling strategy for Democrats, but his plan is incomplete. If Democrats want to talk about the common good, they must pick policies that will force the Republicans to discuss politics on those terms. Tomasky may be the best of the Framers, but substance, not framing, is what makes the Democratic Party great. Tomasky’s article claims to be about the “virtue of standing for something...
...with some certainty that it’s at least as boring as life, if not more so. The point is, no one will remember you, so stop acting like you’re important.To keep everyone honest, we’ve decided to hand-pick our successors for this column. The competition was thick like Serena Williams’ booty, but we’re proud to announce the winners of the 2006 Bell Lap Contest: D.A. Wallach ’07 and Peter Martinez ’07. This Midwestern duo impressed us with their insightful guide...