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Williams was named to the first team in the 500-yard freestyle, the 200 freestyle and the 1650 freestyle. In addition, the Louisiana sensation joined Peterson, Sumner Anderson and Stephen Root on Harvard's First Team All-Ivy 800 freestyle relay, and swam the freestyle leg on the Crimson's Second Team All-Ivy 200 and 400 medley relay teams...
...administration and my parents argue that if I were conscientious and the least bit intelligent, I would have already passed the QRR. But they don't understand the mental impossibilities of standard deviation. I get immobilized by data fear every time I see a square root sign. It just isn't part of my culture as a member of the mathematically illiterate minority at Harvard...
Absent too was any hint of the extent to which Bush loves to root around in the details of his job. (He denies this trait vehemently, thinking it Carteresque.) He reads the papers each morning in bed, clipping and underlining things that catch his eye, and later sends copies to aides for follow-up. On the show, Bush's eyes may have seemed to glaze over when Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter presented him with a copy of the new farm bill, but the President is more able than most politicians to argue the finer points of crop subsidies. There...
...potential departure of one-third of the junior members of the English Department is shameful. And the fact that Harvard continues to wink at such crises without acknowledging the systemic problems at their root is evidence of the torpor which has taken hold at the top of this institution...
...reasons for the lawlessness are many, but the root cause is appalling poverty, rubbing raw against conspicuous wealth. The city is broken in half by a mountain range. The Zona Norte is dense, poor and desperately violent. The Zona Sul is laced with fancy apartments, fringed with world-class beaches, home to the rich and the tourists. In between, atop the granite peak of Corcovado, stands the symbol of Rio, a towering statue of Christ, his arms outstretched like a beleaguered mediator trying to keep two street fighters apart...