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...site describes Barclay as five feet 11 inches tall, with fair skin, brown hair, and blue eyes. He weighs 135 pounds and wears eyeglasses. Barclay was active on the MIT Parliamentary Debate Team. One MIT student who has debated with him said he is a powerful debater famous for his joke debate topics. “His favorite joke was that ‘the U.S. should nuke the moon,’” said MIT freshman Adam J. Goldstein. Goldstein said that members of the debate team are circulating posters seeking information about Barclay?...
...episode together, and most were surprised by its ending.“They didn’t know that I was going to be fired,” Ruggiero said during a teleconference with USA Hockey on March 27th, “but were supporting me as the famous last words were heard, and throwing pillows at the TV.”Though Ruggiero’s energy and business acumen helped Kinetic to four victories during her span on the show, returning to the U.S. National squad may have come as a bit of a relief...
...indicator, but an imperfect one. Adolescents and people in their early 20s are not famous for good judgment and sober reflection. Indeed, recent neurological studies reveal that the brain doesn't even finish laying down all its wiring until deep into the second decade of life - far beyond the babyhood years in which scientists once believed this basic work got done. "Adolescents tend to take more risks in general and tend to be more impulsive," says psychologist William Pollack, of McLean Hospital in Boston. "Boys [especially] are socialized into the idea that such behavior...
...actions truly have consequence. The fortunes that some of us will acquire ultimately will be squandered by others. Any position of status that we claim during life will be filled by others. Our great novel will only be cliff-noted or skimmed during reading period. Our famous names will be remembered only by eccentric aunts rebuilding family trees or equally eccentric history professors. Someday after our civilization is only ruins and records written in a dead language, parents will take their bored children to see the rubble of our great buildings. At that point all that will matter...
...seemed ready not for a memorial, but for a college basketball game. It was packed to the rafters with chatting students, most in orange or maroon shirts or hoodies bearing the Virginia Tech logo. The rafters themselves were hung with banners from previous years' basketball victories, and pictures of famous Hokie players from years past. State Senator John Edwards, whose district comprises Blacksburg, worked the front row, shaking hands with U.S. Senators John Warner and Jim Webb and most of the state's U.S. House members...