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Harvard's season begins and ends on the shoulders of Giardi. Should he go down, there's no backup quarterback to pick up the slack. (David Morgan '94, the backup quarterback and starting punter for last year's squad, took...
Harvard's season begins and ends on the shoulders of Giardi. Should he go down, there's no backup quarterback to pick up the slack. (David Morgan '94, the backup quarterback and starting punter for last year's squad, took...
Until the last minute, JPL flight controllers hoped to pull off a similar coup with Observer. But none of the probe's backup systems responded to their electronic pleas, and after Wednesday there was little hope that a response would ever come. The problem, according to space experts, is that despite elaborate backup systems, space missions have become too complex to be made foolproof. Says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "NASA should be doing smaller missions, more rapidly and with more limited objectives. Then if you lose one, you haven't lost everything...
Richards' singing starts out as minimalist statements and slowly grows into an over-powering, howling duet with his backup. The track goes on a full two minutes longer than the original, and the juggernaut groove seems as though it could go on forever. When Richards voices over, "Dig these guys," at the end, you're still in shock...
...coerced into sexual servitude. Some, abducted by con men, are raped and psychologically pummeled into submission. As they strut their wares, their pimps lurk in cars in the shadows, calculating the night's take. But not all the pimps are gangsters. Often it is Father who sits in the backup car or Mother who negotiates the deal for her daughter. Little Brother may appear with a sponge and a pail of soapy water to wash a client's car for an extra...