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Everyone is watching Foer's new book, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin; 326 pages), which drops later this month, to see if it holds up. It does, and more, but it also makes clear that Foer is different from other hyperachieving young writers. Where young Turks like Dave Eggers get tagged as ironic, and even snarky, Foer is profoundly serious. The way some other 28-year-olds are interested in beer and video games, Foer is interested in the Truth with a capital T, and he's not afraid to go for all the big themes at once...
...room to do the traditional Inspection of the Living Quarters. “It (ahem) always looks like this” I assured them when they inquired about the relative cleanliness. Before I had to spend too much time trying to defend this outrageous claim, my roommate Dave came home. He had that dazed computer-science-owns-my-soul look to him, but he was kind enough to sit down and chat with us for a while...
Cole bested the second-place finisher in the 1650—Dave Ashley from Princeton—by just under 30 seconds and broke his own EISL record by 0.61 seconds. In relay competition, Cole’s critical third leg in the 800-yard freestyle relay put Harvard in first place for good. His efforts earned him the Phil Moriarty Award as the meet’s outstanding swimmer...
Crimson junior middle hitter Seamus McKiernan led the squad with 13 kills and seven blocks. Sophomore setter Dave Fitz posted 40 assists for Harvard...
...DAVE O'REILLY: I hope that people would be happy. When you see high profits from a California-based company, the media is usually complimentary. They say, "Look what Intel did!", or whatever. So why isn't it a good thing for us to have strong profits when we provide so much employment, pay so much in taxes, and we're a positive force in the community...