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...1783—13 years after the Pudding’s umbrella organization was founded—an aging Benjamin Franklin watched with wonder while the world’s first hot air balloon ascended into the sky above an enthralled crowd on the Champs de Mars in Paris. “But what good is it?” someone called out, to which Franklin famously replied: “What good is a newborn baby...
Harvard is certainly capable of taking down Cornell. It has the best player on the court in Lin, the hottest player in the league in Casey, and a raucous home crowd that is finally earning the “Crimson Crazies” moniker...
...mixed crowd of undergraduates and graduate students listened to Boston College Professor of Theology Lisa S. Cahill call for religious dialogue to deal more directly with today’s sexual culture...
...policies are "in lockstep" with the President's. In remarks at a Denver auditorium, Obama sought to position Bennet as an anti-establishment political neophyte. "Even though Michael Bennet has been serving you for years, believe it or not, this is his first election," Obama told a buoyant crowd. "He's a heck of a public servant, but he's new to politics, so he hasn't learned the best way to keep your poll numbers up is just to smile and wave and pretend like you're doing something and not really doing anything that might offend anybody...
...When asked which sport is tougher, downhill skiing or half-pipe snowboarding, the skiing crowd protects its turf: "I know what [snowboarders] do is massively difficult," says Chemmy Alcott, a skier from Great Britain who finished 13th in the downhill race. "But just being on skis, you can create so much more energy and speed than a snowboarder." Another biased observer, Vonn's younger sister Karin, offers one of the more rational reasons for favoring her sibling's sport. "It's like comparing gymnastics to football," says Karin, 21, a student at the University of San Diego. "With...