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Harvard’s Nordic and Alpine skiing teams saw their first action of the season over the weekend at the St. Lawrence Carnival. The Crimson finished ninth out of 13 teams at the Lake Placid Olympic Complex. In the Nordic events, junior Jennifer Harlow’s 48th-place finish in the 5k led the way for a women’s squad that finished 11th in that event. For the men, freshman Dave McCahill recorded the top time, finishing 61st in 29:25.2. He was followed by freshman Clem Wright at 74th and sophomore Oliver Burruss in 82nd...
...Crimson’s top scorer outside of Scherf for the second year in a row. Her time this season was 18:09.8, which was good enough for 22nd place. Bourne, freshman Lauren Walker and fellow classmate Jessica Bryant came through the line in 43rd, 46th and 48th, respectively. On the men’s side, junior Sean Barrett was the only Harvard runner to place better than 45th. His time of 25:49.3 was 37th in the individual standings. Barrett was followed up by two sophomores—Brian Holmquist and Andrew Lipkin—whose respective times...
...good behavior? Mailer was raising money for what promises to be one of the largest gatherings of literary notables ever held: the 48th Annual Congress of International PEN, an association of poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists, which opens in New York City next week. The London-based association, which has 83 affiliate centers worldwide, is dedicated to fighting censorship and the jailing of writers. Founded in 1921, it takes its inspiration from Walt Whitman, who wrote in 1881: "My dearest dream is for an internationality of poems and poets...
BOOKS: In New York City, the 48th PEN Congress generates heat and light...
...York City in mid-January. The winter's coldest weather to date arrived with the delegates and guests. Central Park was a dismal filigree of naked branches; from hotel windows, the frozen ponds looked like the eyes of dead fish. And then there was the theme of the 48th annual congress of International PEN: "The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State." PEN, founded in 1921, is an organization of poets, playwrights, essayists, editors and novelists. Almost any of its 10,000 members worldwide, it would seem, could invent a more inviting topic for discussion. But none...