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Villanova’s 25-game ‘Big 5’ winning streak ends with 78-75 loss to Penn
Villanova’s 25-game “Big 5” winning streak came to an end Tuesday night thanks to a 78-75 loss at the hands of the Quakers.
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Could the 30-year mortgage disappear?
Ben Keys of the Wharton School endorsed the idea of de-emphasizing the option for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages. However, he warned, if lenders stop guaranteeing those mortgages, “we should expect house prices everywhere to go down, which could be a potentially large shock to the housing market.”
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Penn stuns Villanova for first win over Wildcats since 2002
AJ Brodeur and Antonio Woods each scored 16 points as Penn beat No. 16 Villanova 78-75 on Tuesday night, the Quakers’ first win over the Wildcats since 2002.
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The man in charge of Pa.’s commutation system says it’s broken. Can it be fixed?
Kathleen Brown of the School of Nursing spoke about her frustrations with the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, which has ignored evidence of rehabilitation, instead examining the original crime itself. “That’s not what it’s supposed to be,” she said. “They’re supposed to be evaluating people as they are now.”
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Villanova is in for a fight from this Philadelphia-area rival
As is tradition in the Philadelphia area, the local college basketball teams are hooking up in the yearly Big Five rivalry games with Villanova and Pennsylvania taking center stage on Tuesday.
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Digging for the life stories of long-forgotten slaves
Penn researchers, including visiting student Adeyemi Oduwole, are analyzing mitochondrial DNA from bodies discovered in Charleston, S.C. All of the people found were of African ancestry, making the site the oldest known graveyard of enslaved Africans in the city. “Both of my parents grew up in Nigeria,” said Oduwole. “Those could be my ancestors down there.”
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Against endorsing the Chicago principles
The Graduate School of Education’s Sigal Ben-Porath wrote about the Chicago principles, which many institutions use as a guide to handling free-speech issues, and its shortcomings. The principles “rely on a legalistic and formal framework that purports to offer a response to a set of problems that has little use for such blunt tools,” she said.
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Why did humans lose their fur?
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Sarah Millar discussed human hair growth patterns. Millar said, of a recently discovered inhibitor protein, “Dkk2 is enough to prevent hair from growing but not to get rid of all control mechanisms. There’s a lot more to look at.”
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Nissan-Renault scandal shows it’s hard to keep car alliances on track
Harbir Singh of the Wharton School discussed the difficulties of corporate alliances in and beyond the auto industry. He attributed the low success rate to companies overestimating their savings and underestimating the challenges of merging businesses.
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Retailers have a secret shopper score for you
The Wharton School’s Peter Fader discussed how retailers prioritize customers based on their spending habits. “If we see you engaging with the company more deeply, we have a sense that you’re going to be worth that much more in the future,” said Fader.