Word: beginnings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people get hurt because they assume that yoga is simple and that anybody can pretzel himself or herself on demand. Edward Toriello, an orthopedic surgeon and spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, says most of the injuries he sees are sustained by "weekend warrior" baby boomers who begin yoga without realizing that their bodies are no longer what they used to be. "They think that yoga is an easy way to start exercising, so they go to class once a week, not stretched out at all, and they get hurt...
...order to contribute to a larger revolutionary project, we must begin by unmasking our own incompleteness. Perhaps the most fundamental fact of human existence is its total contingency upon fate: The reasons that I am who I am, and not someone else, are necessarily inexplicable. No one can account for the intrinsic irrationality of existence (the fact of our general good fortune vis-à-vis the fact of others’ enormous suffering, for example). Similarly, we can never escape the reality that our assumptions, arguments, and interpretations all depend on the specific environment that nurtures...
...place of the anti-democratic kernel of the Harvardian ideal, then, we must shun leadership and commit to humility. We begin our revolution by admitting our incapacity to dictate “solutions” to anyone else and by asserting our willingness to really engage the realities of the oppressed. For what we enable, then, is democracy of a genuine sort. As the “best” represents always a subset of the general population, submission to the “best and the brightest” presupposes the annulment of properly democratic politics. Against this...
...record and a four-game season-ending win streak, including the unforgettable triple-OT win at Yale. He led the Ivy League in total offense with 2,448 yards and turned in a stellar 133.2 efficiency rating, but was forced to relinquish the starting job to Pizzotti to begin 2006 as he sat out a five-game suspension. Pizzotti made four of the next five starts (he missed a game due to injury) as Harvard ran out to a 5-0 record, but yielded to O’Hagan in the second quarter of O’Hagan?...
...During his four years as dean of FAS, William C. Kirby oversaw measures intended to improve tenure prospects for junior faculty and mitigate the complicated, detailed, and immensely time-consuming series of hurdles involved in the tenure process. In February 2005 Kirby announced that Harvard would begin to advertise assistant professorships as tenure-track...