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...After Wasson's article was published, many people sought out mushrooms and the other big hallucinogen of the day, LSD. (In 1958, Time Inc. cofounder Henry Luce and his wife Clare Booth Luce dropped acid with a psychiatrist. Henry Luce conducted an imaginary symphony during his trip, according to Storming Heaven.) The most important person to discover drugs through the Life piece was Timothy Leary himself. Leary had never used drugs, but a friend recommended the article to him, and Leary eventually traveled to Mexico to take mushrooms. Within a few years, he had launched his crusade for America...
...finals], we both would have wanted to win really badly. It would have been very competitive.” Suchde bounced top-seeded Baset Ashfaq of Trinity from the field with a decisive three-game win in his own semifinal. Ashfaq had eliminated Harvard senior Garnett Booth in the second round. Sophomore Verdi DiSesa was granted the top seed in the “B” draw, but was upset by Bill Hatch of Yale in the Round of 16. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer...
...time, there's only one soldier, and you have to be very patient and pretend to be sympathetic while he or she is on the cellphone for 10 minutes talking to a friend or a mother. Otherwise, if you try to hurry along the soldier in the booth, it puts him or her in a bad mood, and it can take a lot longer...
...match could have gone either way,” coach Satinder Bajwa said. “It’s one of those things. There are never any guarantees.” After the first three matches, Princeton led with a 2-1 advantage. Senior Garnett Booth provided the only Harvard win in the first trio of matches. Booth, after dropping the first game 9-5, rallied to win the next three. Fellow senior Todd Ostrow, in the ninth position, almost overcame a two-game deficit early in the meet. After losing 9-4 and 9-6, Ostrow mounted...
...premiere of The Ballets of George Balanchine - the legendary classical choreographer whom Ratmansky cites as a prime inspiration. While tourists posed for photos in the lobby, balletomanes lined up to purchase Bolshoi magnets and T shirts, and ushers hawked commemorative calendars, Ratmansky slipped unnoticed into a back booth. Ignoring the commotion and scribbling notes, he kept his eye trained solely on his ballerinas, who wore the Bolshoi's traditional monochrome leotards and leaped and jetéed to Balanchine's original choreography. The performance was exquisite, and if you watched the stage very closely, as Ratmansky did, it seemed...