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...right. The last time. I did this, I got in trouble. I wrote about sports--about the hockey team, about the boring alumni fans who with their bench cushions and espresso warmers couldn't even bother to sit through both games of the Beanpot. I wondered what cosmic force turned strapping young men and women such as we into old bores who would rather plan the quickest route back to Duxbury than scream "Sieve" till their face turned blue...
...next week, the Harvard cheering section had made up a pleasant cheer about me, involving the word "sucks." Even my loyal roommate didn't bother to explain that I was complaining about the old farts in the rafters, not him and his friends up front. But before the cheer started up, with my name to be broadcast over the airwaves to rabid hockey fans around the city, disaster was averted. I don't know how, but since then, I haven't said one word about sports, never mind write about...
...tool for women with high- risk pregnancies whose doctors know what they are looking for. But a six- year study of low-risk mothers who had undergone the procedure found that their children had exactly the same rate of birth defects, 5%, as those of women who didn't bother with it. "This is an example of the unnecessary testing that is driving up our health-care costs," said the lead investigator, Bernard Ewigman of the University of Missouri at Columbia. "Our findings are quite dramatic, and will surprise many physicians," as well as healthy pregnant women. If that group...
...haven't even tried [hooking up to the network] because everybody tells me it's too hard and not to bother," said Amy Ozols...
Whether Jew, Christian or Muslim, believers today tend to regard their faith as a received whole -- that is, as a belief system with most of the major theoretical issues long since resolved, in so far as they can be. No 20th century Christian, for example, would bother to start an argument about the divinity of Jesus, a subject that obsessed 4th century bishops. But as Armstrong reminds us, the world's three great monotheistic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- did not arrive where they are without impassioned debates and conflicts. She contends that Yahweh was originally a savage, partisan...