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...January he lifted the veil somewhat, releasing a video of the first test flight last November--a cozy affair on his ranch, with a Jumbotron for the spectators, a bouncy castle for the kids and a chuck wagon. The scaled-down prototype flew up 285 ft.--and 30 sec. later landed successfully. "My only job at the launch was to open the champagne, and I broke the cork off in the bottle," he blogged later. (You can almost hear that mad-scientist laugh of his.) "Fortunately, our other valve operations went more smoothly...
...thank-you letters penned by the apartheid era's superstars. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a regular visitor to Darling (he takes his wife there for their anniversary), writes: "We need you to continue to hold a mirror to our human condition." Alongside are affectionate faxes from the debonair '80s Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha, and photos of "the couple" going hunting. "During the '80s, I started a rumor that he and Evita were having an affair, and even he started believing it," says...
...guidance of the instructor. Of course, these aren’t the only classes with limited enrollment. Harvard students often lottery for a coveted spot in one class or another. Visual and Environmental Studies courses, Freshman Seminars, and many popular cores are capped. Such lotteries, however, are a standardized affair in which the major deciding factors are seniority, need, and chance. In the competitive world of creating writing, admission criteria are far more personal.The applications comprise a cover letter and a three- to five-page writing sample specific to the workshop. Often, the intensely personal nature of writing can make...
...60th meeting between Harvard and Yale in women’s hockey, 60 minutes were not enough to settle the affair. The Crimson overcame a pair of two-goal deficits with a feverish third-period rally and scored with 56 seconds left in overtime to topple the Bulldogs (15-12-2, 10-10-2 ECAC) by a 4-3 final at Bright Hockey Center Friday night.After Harvard earned a man-advantage with 1:11 remaining in the extra session, coach Katey Stone called a timeout and, knowing Yale would assume its tightest defensive formation, sent the top power-play unit...
Among the key players in the affair were Harvard’s Valentino “The Humidifier” Tosatti, a third-year grad student of Italian lineage who keeps two DDR pads in his office, and two more at his home in the Mediterranean, but nevertheless noted that he is “very much out of training...