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...Drivingwise, F1 looks a lot more exciting than it has in years. Last year's champion, Jenson Button, and 2008 winner Lewis Hamilton, both Brits, are driving for McLaren. Schumi's back and trying to win another championship at 41. Red Bull, last year's runner-up in the constructor's race, has a quick young German driver named Sebastian Vettel whose nickname is Baby Schumi. With Alonso and Felipe Massa behind the wheel, Ferrari is again a strong contender, and Ferrari, by general consensus and its own elevated self-image, is the beating red heart of F1. Three...
...areas. And the difference was not lost on the residents. Outside one apartment block, a group of residents gathered for a meeting. The ceiling of their building had crumpled in the quake, and the apartment dwellers were sure it was due to shoddy workmanship on the part of the constructor; they were furious with the government for granting the building a permit. Violence, one felt here, was not far away...
...came here. This is only my second tournament.RR: Impressive! Wow, how long does it take you to do a Sunday New York Times Crossword?DIG: It depends on if I pick up the theme quickly, but around 10 to 15 minutes.RR: Would you call yourself a cruciverbalist [a constructor or solver of crossword puzzles]?DIG: Yes, but only around people who do crosswords. I’ve never used it as a pick-up line.Kyle A. Mahowald ’09, Secretary of The Harvard Crossword SocietyRoving Reporter (RR): This was a great event. So, Kyle, what?...
...know that Agee, however lauded in his time (he died at 51 in 1955), would in the long run be the white elephant to Manny's termite? No, let's be fairer: Charlie Chaplin, equal parts genius and sentiment, to Manny's Buster Keaton, the deadpan acrobat and scene constructor, who had to wait ages for his star to eclipse Chaplin's in critics' eyes...
After picking a theme and setting the grid, “you start filling the grid with words,” Mahowald says. Even though there are now computer programs that have extensive stores of words and tell the constructor which words can possibly fit, it is still the human touch that separates the ordinary puzzles from the extraordinary ones that are seen in the Times and other respected publications...