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...pretty much moot anyway. Because of the difficulty of manufacturing Playstation 3's, Sony has only been able to put a few hundred thousand units on sale in the U.S., so unless you spent last night camped out in front of a Gamestop, buying a Playstation3 is not an option. Congratulations: you made the right call. And you smell better...
...know anyone, American or Chinese, who has spent time in an orphanage and believes that it is an adequate environment for a baby or young child. The exquisitely fine-tuned neurodevelopment of children is compromised by group care, sub-optimal nutrition, and the inability to explore; every week in an orphanage is something to be avoided. It’s wonderful to have perfect adoptions—in-country, culturally sensitive, supportive of birth parents and birth county—but, truly, the most important thing for a child is a permanent, loving family...
...It’s true that I-A schools like Northwestern do have a relationship with the Crimson. After all, the Ivy League’s recently-crowned career rushing king spent a redshirt freshman year at the Big Ten school before transferring to Harvard...
...anyone who has spent more than about two hours in New Haven readily recognizes, Yale students do not need much of an incentive to party. We should all ask ourselves why many Yale student groups and residential colleges seem to have spent their money on a tailgate for the Princeton game, and why they seem quite unwilling to make the short trip up to Boston...
...numbers alone do look like a typical midterm loss for the presidential party: 28 House seats, with 10 races still undecided. Republicans have clung to this math hard in recent days, with even Karl Rove pointing to electoral history to prove that things could have been worse. But Republicans spent most of the year boasting about how the redistricting of the past decade had made them all but bulletproof. Absent those new district lines, says the American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein, "it could easily have been 45 or more." And there are other results that break with past patterns...