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...they are expecting their second son this spring. Becoming parents has been a balancing act for the couple: she is a rising star in the Catalan Socialist Party, and he commutes half the week to his job as an economics professor at the University of York in England. But on a recent Saturday morning in their sunny Barcelona apartment, they have a more modest ambition: to get some medicine into their 2 year-old son, Maties, who's been running a fever since the previous night. Domenech holds the twisting, crying toddler, as his mom manages to pour the syrup...
Ballard's tenuous relationship with his parents explains why he excluded them from Empire of the Sun. His father, who left England in 1929 to run a cotton factory, along with his wife and hundreds of other Brits, had a high old time of it in Shanghai's free-trade, hard-boozing International Settlement. For the young Ballard, life before the war was giddy and privileged, too - a succession of gymkhanas, parties and inexhaustible supplies of American comics. But it was all colored by a guilt-edged curiosity at the poverty and brutality he saw on his frequent bike rides...
Docking at Southampton in 1946, Ballard found England just as classbound and uptight, and also bombed out and exhausted. He studied medicine at Cambridge, but was impatient for the future already signposted by Freud, the Surrealists and American science fiction. With his wife, Mary - and, in quick succession, three children - Ballard immersed himself in the hands-on family life he craved. After the publication of The Drowned World in 1962, he could afford to stay home, writing more postapocalyptic tales. Then, the following year, Mary died of pneumonia. This loss struck Ballard as a bitter and unexplained crime of nature...
...football season might mean rest and relaxation for the many players of the NFL, but for more than 30 that have come to Cambridge this week, playtime is over. The football players—who include New England Patriots defensive end Richard V. Seymour and Cleveland Browns running back Jamal L. Lewis, according to a press release—are at Harvard as part of the NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program. The collaborative effort between the NFL, the NFL Players Association, and the Business School helps players prepare for professional life after their football days are over. Michael...
...men’s captain Brian Holmquest said. “It brews in us.” Second only to the spring Heptagonals, the indoor championship marks the second biggest meet for the Crimson. And, hot off individual successes in last weekend’s USATF New England Championships, the men’s and women’s teams are looking to make tracks in the Heptagonal pool. At last year’s indoor Heps, the women finished in the middle of the pack with just 50 points, while the men had a disappointing eighth-place finish...