MRM #19

– Yale edges out Cornell by a slim margin as the favorite to win the ECAC.

– Despite popular arguments to the contrary, new research says suggests that  stimulus spending might not be as effective as the “New Keynesians” might like it to be.

– Oxford plans to adopt more “Ivy-League style scholarships.”

– Cornell dominates Ivy League Sports.

– More on Obama/Gorbachev comparisons.

– Cornell plans to be “climate neutral” by 2050.

– This is hardly a quick reading link, but if you’re trying to procrastinate before prelims, check out this great lecture by Cornell President Emeritus Hunter Rawlings on the origins of the American idea of freedom.