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Harvard (12-5) may be distant from the Spartans (21-2) in the national rankings. But because the Crimson has the experience of playing within a goal of No. 2 Wake Forest and led before slipping up against No. 8 Northeastern, there’s no sense of a wide disparity...
...timed to 11/2 minutes with the help of an aide crouching in front of his desk with a stopwatch. "I could make 40 or 60 in a row if I had to," he says, squatting to pose with the children of two families of admirers who have traveled from distant Sulawesi to catch a glimpse of him. "It's easy for me to give those speeches because I do those things every day. You have to do what...
...That scenario [substantial renovations] puts off into an even more distant position the question of a new museum,” Cohn says...
That first book, "Double Happiness" (Shiga Books; 72 pp.; $4.95), self-published through a grant by the invaluable Xeric Foundation begins when Tom, a shy Chinese-American who barely knows how to hold chopsticks, travels from Boston to San Francisco. There he meets a distant cousin immigrant who introduces him to the city's Chinatown. Tom learns to squat on the balls of his feet, wins money at a smoky mah-jongg club, and starts to fall for Li Jian, the cute girl whose karaoke version of "Hey, Jude" is "Hey, Jute." She teaches him to read the fruit merchant...
Along with his Caltech colleague Maartin Schmidt, Greenstein made significant strides in understanding quasars, the most distant stellar formations visible from the Earth...