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Pretty much everyone’s college years are a cusp, an ontological R&D period of flux during which one is moving between immaturity and maturity, between the certainties of childhood and the settledness (or inertia) of adulthood, between furtive sex hidden from one’s parents and furtive sex hidden from one’s children...
...eastern European subjects, on the other hand, appear less packaged and less burdened with notions of what the finished photograph should look like. All of the photographs capture a certain charming naiveté and vulnerability, characteristic of those on the cusp of maturity...
After a one year hiatus, the Harvard baseball dynasty is on the cusp of once again reigning atop the Red Rolfe Division...
...evolutionary eye-blink (if we keep our noses to the grindstone for the next few hundred years or so) we will likely understand the biochemical soup that is our body and be able to manipulate it at will, extending life indefinitely. With humans on the cusp of technology-induced functional immortality, I feel ripped off. I am part of the last few of the millions of generations that will not taste the almost infinite fruits of our long evolutionary assent. It is time to cheat fate...
...Crimson (8-12, 5-2 Ivy) will tip off against Brown (10-11, 5-3) at 6 p.m. in Lavietes Pavilion tonight. The Bears defeated Harvard, 59-57, in their last meeting on the cusp of Harvard's exam period...