Word: classics
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Despite the imposing rain clouds building throughout much of yesterday afternoon, Harvard Square hosted the last leg of what organizers called a successful Atlantic Cup Classic bicycle race, with over 150 participants and a throng of enthusiastic spectators...
...magazine, the New Yorker, made him famous. His last cover appears on it this week. It is his 86th, apart from innumerable drawings and dinkuses. By far his best-known cover, a classic commentary on the provincialism of great cities, ended as a poster on tens of thousands of walls. It is the Manhattanite's view from New York City: Eighth and Ninth avenues wide in the foreground, a strip of Hudson River, a smaller strip of New Jersey, the rest of the U.S. missing, and in the far background some mere dots marking Los Angeles, Australia and Japan...
Rather than turn kids' sports into object lessons in doing "whatever it takes to win," we parents should consult Rudyard Kipling (no New Age softy, he). In his classic poem If, Kipling wrote, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,/and treat those two imposters just the same...you'll be a man, my son." Or a fine young woman. And, what's more, a good sport...
...Track at IC4As (at George Mason), all day W. Track at ECACs (at George Mason), all day TOMORROW M. Track at IC4As (at George Mason), all day W. Track at ECACs (at George Mason), all day ON TELEVISION NCAA W. Golf Tournament, ESPN2, 1 p.m. Bell Atlantic Classic (SPGA), ESPN, 3 p.m. Mastercard Colonial (PGA), NESN, 4 p.m. Blue Jays at Red Sox, WLVI, 7 p.m. Cubs at Braves, TBS, 7:30 p.m. Pacers at 76ers, TNT, 8 p.m. Rosenblatt vs. Bryan, ESPN2...
...classic view of business school is a Paper Chase-style classroom full of hyper-competitive white guys in stuffed shirts. The defining 1973 movie was actually based on life at Harvard Law School, but the image of memorizing case studies, cold calling (when a professor calls on students at random) and learning by intimidation is one the B school can't seem to shake. It's also an image that may turn off a lot of women. "Many women feel that M.B.A. programs offer a very chilly climate for them," says Judith Sturnick, director of the Office of Women...