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Unfortunately, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 sees our revelry a bit differently. Commercials blind us to “the real world of drunkenness,” he gently reminds us in his op-ed “Harvard in a Beer-Ad World,” and images of beautiful people with lips pressed against some frothy brew can seduce even the most critically-minded Harvard students. “The reality of heavy drinking,” he warns veteran lushes without a hint of irony, is one in which na?...
...uses fins but no extra weights to dive as far as possible before coming up for air. No-limits free divers take it further, using a weighted sled running down a vinyl-coated steel cable that pulls the diver to depths where Coke cans implode and fish swim nearly blind. An air bag at the top of the sled is inflated by the diver and shoots the diver to the surface. Because of the short submersion time, decompression sickness--the bends--isn't normally a problem. Fewer than two dozen people in the world compete in this extreme version...
...sense of justice really didn’t fit the model of blind judging,” Coontz said. “She always saw the shades of gray, and tried to err on the side that would help students...
...much of Cabaret takes place, is also wild, raw and at times downright raunchy. It’s a place where women proposition men, and boys do too, where life tastes delicious and where wives and worries are left at home. Outside, however, Germany sits partially trembling and partially blind on the eve of Nazism. Ultimately, the political situation renders the inside less lascivious and more escapist; the Kit Kat Klub transforms into a retreat from Hitler’s Third Reich...
Oliver Libby, for one, is color-blind. As a result, when he dresses, he does so only in black or shades of it. Libby is Jewish, though he doesn’t think that will be a political liability. Libby is from a family wealthy enough to allow him to say that, for him, the money needed to fund a campaign is “not really a concern.” Libby is from a family drenched in achievement: Two Nobel Prizes in the space of just a few generations testify to that. “The family...