MRM #14!
– President Skorton’s welcome letter discusses low admissions rates, faculty honors and recognitions, shrinking annual deficits, and something about becoming a climate-neutral university and stopping global warming.
– Senator Edward Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday evening.
– Via VK, the AP uncovers more ridiculous/inefficient pork barrel stimulus spending.
– As Bilmes reports, Cornell hockey stars Riley Nash and Colin Greening will be returning for another season.
– Jenna Bush Hager plans to sell her soul to NBC.
– We may disagree with his policies, and his numbers may be slipping at home, but Obama’s international approval ratings are quite good.
– Even after a properly administered election in Afghanistan, much work remains to be done.
– Rasmussen reports that 57% of American voters would prefer to replace Congress and start all over.
– For new readers of the Cornell Review / Cornell Insider, here’s a list of the Top 25 Economics Blogs by WSJ. HT to the Stanford Review Blog, which you should also check out.
– More on the Sigma Nu pot bust.
