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After watching their favorite team’s season end in devastation time after time in the 1940’s and 50’s, fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers popularized the saying, “Wait till next year.” For the Harvard women’s hockey team, next year is this year, and the Crimson’s future helped bury its past by opening the new season with a victory. No. 7 Harvard beat Quinnipiac in Friday night’s season opener thanks in large part to the efforts of three freshmen...
...bris, the rite in which a boy's foreskin is removed at 8 days old, Theo Margaritov's family welcomed him in April with a brit shalom, a cut-free ceremony. "That's the way God made him," says his mom Deborah, 33, a raw-foods cooking teacher in Brooklyn...
Still, religion and health aren't the only concerns parents weigh when making the decision to cut or not to cut; tradition is also a factor. Liz Arnaiz, 30, a Brooklyn architect whose son Lucas was circumcised when he was born last November, says her husband is circumcised, so it made sense for the boy to be like his dad. Besides, she adds, "to imagine your kid in the locker room the odd man out is tough...
...ever going to open another restaurant? -Irwin Chen, Brooklyn, N.Y.I'm 51 years old. From age 37, you don't get any smarter or faster in the kitchen. Your palate is in decline. So God, I hope not. Though this TV scam could all go wrong, and I might need the job. [Laughs...
...kids on the playground called me Peven Stinker.13. FM: Your participation in the Latke v. Hamantaschen debate with Professor Dershowitz was particularly funny, but all joking aside, do you think you could you take him down in a fist fight?SP: He’s a street kid from Brooklyn. I wouldn’t mess with him.14. FM: Two of your books are about language and two are about human nature. Your latest book combines the two—what’s next?SP: My next book is going be on the decline of violence and its implications...