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...twin sister and I look a lot alike (although we have different hair colors, thanks to a few chemical processes). We are not sure if we are identical or not. My mother never got a straight answer from the doctor—the confusion has something to do with placentas...unappetizing, right? We might be identical or we might not be. (Mary-Kate and Ashley are fraternal, after...
...song on the album seems to obey a sort of invisible rock template, a self-conscious mechanism that mindlessly plugs in choruses, verses, hooks and solos, but never seems to be aware of what makes any of those things work together. The album plods along on autopilot for six straight tracks of virtually indistinguishable twin-guitar artillery, with doses of horn flourish applied intermittently in a futile attempt to enliven the record’s blandness. “The Switch and the Spur,” “Hold...
...cursory reading of Mankiw’s Principles of Economics will reveal subsidies are, as a general rule, inefficient; they distort incentives and create deadweight loss. While they can produce artificially low prices at the grocery store, the funds paying for this difference come straight out of consumers’ wallets in the form of tax dollars. Ultimately the costs outweigh the benefits. American farm subsidies are no exception, and have the added drawback of incurring the ire of foreign farmers who find themselves undersold by government-backed U.S. agriculture. This consistently creates a roadblock in international trade negations...
...Harvard baseball team’s tailspin continues. The Crimson (1-21, 0-6 Ivy) suffered its third straight doubleheader sweep to open the Ivy League campaign—its 14th and 15th consecutive losses overall—yesterday at O’Donnell Field, as visiting Penn (11-11-1, 2-5-1) shut it out over the course of 16 innings, taking the opener, 10-0, and the nightcap by a 5-0 final. At 0-6 in the Ivies, Harvard is already six games behind Rolfe Division leader Dartmouth (7-1) in the standings and could...
...Kumar said. “Our game grows with confidence.”HARVARD 4, CORNELL 3In the Crimson’s Ivy League opener, its freshmen learned the hard way how much more pressure they face in league play. Though both Chijoff-Evans and Omodele-Lucien fell in straight sets, Harvard’s victory was assured early by the strong play of the doubles lineups, and by sure-handed victories from Clayton, Kumar, and Nguyen.“I was really nervous,” Chijoff-Evans said. “This is really where it counts. These...