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...most stunning statement to appear in Pete Thamel’s piece in The New York Times about possible recruiting violations made by the Harvard men’s basketball program under head coach Tommy Amaker wasn’t the implication of a new, dodgy admissions policy. It wasn’t the allegation of unethical conduct by current assistant coach Kenny Blakeney. It wasn’t the story about Amaker accidentally on purpose running into the parents of a recruit in a New Jersey supermarket.It was right there in Thamel’s opening line...
...kung fu. “The performing groups make Cultural Rhythms,” said Matthew K. Clair ’09, the other co-director of the first show. Approximately 20 undergraduate interns at the Harvard Foundation are charged with the task of selecting the groups that appear in “Cultural Rhythms.” “I think we’re able to unify the best groups from different cultures and genres,” Mangaser said. The second show, in the evening, was directed by Elizabeth...
...cosmos filled with peripatetic objects like comets, stars appear to be reliable anchor points. But even in the otherwise orderly Milky Way, at least 10 stars have jumped the rails, blasting along at more than a million miles (1.6 million km) per hour. Mysterious as all of them seem, there's one that's a true puzzle...
...story of Fatima began in 1915, when three shepherd children were first visited by what they thought was an angel. By 1917, a figure who identified herself as the Virgin appeared to them, eventually delivering a message for humankind. The children became a focus of massive interest, and in October of that year, the Virgin's presence seem to be confirmed for many others when a crowd of 70,000 - mostly Catholics, some skeptics - saw the sun appear to zigzag in the sky as the Virgin again addressed the children. Fatima almost immediately became a global pilgrimage site...
...opposed Iraq from the beginning"; in New Hampshire, the criticism he got for that didn't stop him from blasting Obama's claim of steadfast opposition to the war as a "fairy tale." He twisted Obama's observation that Ronald Reagan had changed the country to make it appear that the Illinois Senator had praised Reagan's ideas. And Bill churlishly diminished Obama's sweeping and historic primary victory in heavily African-American South Carolina by pointing out that Jesse Jackson had also won the state. Liberal columnist Jonathan Chait wondered, "Were the conservatives right about Bill Clinton all along...