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Silver but Unsafe? Re "The Rise and Fall and Rise of A Skating Superpower" [Feb. 27], about the Chinese ascendancy in figure skating: Time said the pairs figure-skating team of Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao "nabbed the silver." Nabbed indeed. Zhang Hao flung his partner into the air with...
Three years ago, positive descriptions of Bush far outnumbered negative ones. In the past two years, the positive-negative ratio has been more nearly equal. This time, 48% of those polled used a negative word to describe Bush; just 28% picked a positive term; 10% chose neutral language. Six respondents...
Vice President Dick Cheney decided that Katherine Armstrong, owner of the land on which he accidentally shot Harry Whittington, was the best person to tell the press about the event [Feb. 27]. Cheney handpicked someone who had potentially serious liability issues to give the story to the media even before...
Describe yourself in three words: Super cool neato!
Former Associate Dean for Academic Programs Elizabeth Doherty, who held several posts within the College and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) before leaving for Brown early last year, wrote in an e-mail that she chose to move from Cambridge to Providence primarily because of the attractions of the...