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...never saw the Canton Bulldogs or the Decatur Staleys play professional football. I don't care what anyone thinks; I'm not that old. But I did grow up in Wisconsin, where the last of the small town teams, the Green Bay Packers, claimed my childish heart and, to this day, my aging one. Romantically - and doubtless erroneously - I continue to believe that today's insanely well-paid Packers (representing a franchise worth hundreds of millions) have some near-mystical connection with pro-football's prehistoric days, when, if the players were lucky, they might get fifty or a hundred...
...perhaps the most remarkable change of all is in how Baghdadis view the U.S. military presence. A year ago, Hammadi was in a minority: most Iraqis living outside the Green Zone saw the Americans as the main cause of their country's problems. Now, says Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, all the credit for the decline in violence is going to the U.S. military: "People think the Americans are like Superman, who can do anything...
...Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, which will serve as a troop carrier, saw a 55% increase over seven years...
...Marines' troubled vertical-takeoff aircraft saw a 44% rise in program expenditures over 20 years...
Like Harvard, which announced a record low admissions rate of 7.1 percent on Monday, other prestigious colleges saw more competitive admissions processes this year than in the past. Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale were among the schools that had their lowest admit rate on record this year. Yale admitted 1,892 of its 22,813 applicants—a rate of 8.3 percent, down from 9.5 percent for the class of 2011. Columbia College admitted 8.7 percent, Stanford University 9.5 percent, and Dartmouth College 13.2 percent. The change was not confined to Ivy League schools and Stanford. Other...