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...everyone), and do more than hum the Rocky theme when thinking about boxing. And if the idea of hitting someone is (barely) too much for you, join the men's or women's Harvard rugby clubs (which are also open to everyone). Rugby, after all, is one of the fastest growing and most violent club sports at Northeastern colleges...
What made Coltrane great? For some it was his sheer lung power and gale-wind force. "'Trane was the loudest, fastest saxophonist I've ever heard...he was possessed when he put that horn in his mouth," said trumpeter Miles Davis, who made about a dozen albums with him. For others it was his highly textured "sheets of sound," a rapid-fire, rhythmic attack that conjured up aural images of runaway trains, meteor showers and volcanic eruptions. Still others point to Coltrane's importance in bringing African and Eastern influences to jazz and helping bridge the worlds of jazz...
Fans of slain pop singer Selena paid their respects by making Dreaming of You, the Tejano queen's unfinished crossover effort, the first album by a Latin artist to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart. The disc sold 331,000 copies for the week, becoming history's second fastest-selling release by a female artist...
...last week Gerstner, 53, proved his company was really serious about getting with it: he moved to seize control of Lotus Development Corp. and its Notes software program, one of the fastest-growing parts of the $100 billion desktop-computing industry. In an unprecedented step for Big Blue, Gerstner launched a hostile bid to acquire Lotus for $3.3 billion, or $60 a share, more than twice the price at which the stock had been trading. At the same time, IBM went to court to challenge a Lotus "poison pill" that would make a takeover prohibitively expensive and appealed to Lotus...
...into a pancake, with the highest density in the center, where the star starts to form. Unlike a solid disk -- a CD, for example -- this one rotates faster in the center than at the edges. The star, pulling in more matter as it grows more massive, should spin the fastest of all. But it doesn...