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...story: In 2000, I traveled down to Philadelphia with my dad to see Harvard play Penn, its chief rival for league supremacy at the time. The Crimson was 4-1 in the Ivies entering the game, its league title hopes still alive. I remember two things from that afternoon. One, an electrifying Crimson receiver wearing number 19, catching passes and making plays all over the field. I later learned his name was Carl Morris and he turned out to be arguably the greatest wideout in school history. The second thing I can recall is a conversation about whether...
Quite simply, Standard Time has no reasonable justification. Since Sunday’s clock rollback, there are four-and-a-half hours of sunlight after noon, and five-and-a-half before. DST reverses this. Having more sunlight in the afternoon gives us more waking hours to exercise, makes people happier, and has been shown to cut electricity usage and even lower traffic fatalities. Even the economy is better, as retailers sell more when there is more afternoon sunlight...
...like a civil servant. I show up at my desk at 7:30, and I don't leave until mid- to late afternoon, when I've revised what I've written for that day. I do it five days a week until the book is finished...
...don’t claim that it’s in any way perfect but it’s the best deal that we had available,” Petersen wrote in an e-mail sent over the UC’s open list late yesterday afternoon...
Petersen announced the resolution at the UC’s meeting on Sunday night, but in an interview with The Crimson early Monday afternoon, Pilbeam said no agreement had yet been reached...