Word: breakers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...picks make their unlikely rounds. Next to a pile of steaming burritos and bottles of two-buck Chuck, a rocker in a brown polyester jacket chats with a beautiful geek in suspenders. Over by the couches, a sourdough CEO with a soothing French accent sits beside a renowned breaker in sweats and sneakers. And some of Harvard’s most vocal activists—on both sides of the spectrum—talked blogs...
...break dancers warm up through shoulder jerks and pushups. Through all the chaos, in the back corner, sits Olakunle O. “Kunle” Oladehin ’07, quietly splicing songs. Before exiting the room, Katalyst—as he’s known in breaker circuts—stops to answer a question from a fellow breaker, demonstrating complicated moves in an unassuming way. “Kunle’s like a funky turtle,” writes Oludamini D. Ogunnaike ’07 in an e-mail. “He?...
...know what the next gripe is, too. There needs to be a discernable way to separate similarly-talented one-loss teams. In short, the BCS is in need of a better tie-breaker...
...Several weeks ago, entertainment mogul David Geffen sold two postwar paintings by Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning for a combined $143.5 million. Geffen also sold a Jackson Pollock last week for $140 million, making it the single biggest art sale ever. It topped the previous record breaker--cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder's purchase of Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I in June for $135 million. Although Geffen is rumored to be liquidating some art to make a bid for the Los Angeles Times, it's just as possible that the man senses a market peak when...
...that crazy-I set it to check every 15 minutes, and only between 9am and 12 midnight. Annoyingly, it often forgets to check, sometimes for hours at a time. That's not a deal breaker for casual e-mail checkers, but it is something that needs improvement. Hopefully no one will e-mail to say that your house is on fire...