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...beginning of 2007, its founding members—alumnus David W. Ingber ’07 and Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08—were already participating in a growing comedic presence on Harvard’s campus. Greenbaum, a magician by trade who was later bitten by the stand-up bug, performed at Harvard’s Demon ComedyFest his freshman year. Greenbaum returned his sophomore year, where co-founder Ingber entertained viewers with comedy songs strummed on his guitar. “I thought his stuff was unbelievable,” Greenbaum says of Ingber?...
...Steps? No, it's evidence that the dead man was a bombmaker. One of The Kingdom's best scenes has Fleury and Faris quizzing a retired terrorist (the effortlessly intimidiating Uri Gavriel). The old man holds up a hand with two missing fingertips and says, "Every bombmaker gets bitten by his own works...
...continues to be as obscure as he was in life. But with the issues of conservation and cultural identity at the forefront of social debate in Hong Kong, his body of work - spanning almost 40 years and recording the city's passage from hard-bitten entrepôt to looming metropolis - cries out for recognition as the extraordinary social and artistic document that...
Then markets calmed, the Dow cracked 14,000, and the world got back to business. Don't count on that happening forever--today's jitters do probably presage something worse. "Rather like a brontosaurus that has been bitten on the tail and most of the body hasn't noticed it yet, the signal is working its way up the vertebrae," says Jeremy Grantham, chairman of Boston money manager GMO. But even the bearish Grantham doesn't see the reckoning coming tomorrow or even necessarily next year. And in the meantime, something with far more impact on most Americans' lives than...
...tension mounted, extra minutes becoming extra hours, regulation yielding to overtime upon overtime. Deadlines were missed, nails were bitten, and over 100 shots were rifled at the net. And still two zeroes remained on the Kohl Center scoreboard: one beneath Harvard, a 23-win team making its fifth straight NCAA Tournament appearance, and the other below host Wisconsin, the heavily favored top seed and defending national champion, with only one loss on its record to date. Before 5,125 fans, one of the biggest crowds in college women’s hockey history, the Crimson and the Badgers battled into...