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...nearby Washington Square Park. In her teens, as a member of the Song Swappers, she sang backup for Pete Seeger and appeared on Broadway in the short-lived folk musical The Next President. She also earned money babysitting; one of her charges was an infant English aristocrat, the fifth Baron Haden-Guest, who as Christopher Guest would direct and star in the 2003 film A Mighty Wind, an affectionate parody of the folk-boom years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk's Beloved Princess: Mary Travers Dies at 72 | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...animals have become increasingly prominent recently. Factory farming is being recognized as an important health and environmental concern, and many have realized the potentially negative effects of meat consumption on climate change. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, “meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse emissions...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Rethinking Meat | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...Fortunately, on the same day that Harvard Management Company publicly reported the university’s endowment losses—the first such loss since 2002 and only the fifth reported loss since 1971—another equally unique event occurred to remind me of the endowment’s true role. That afternoon, hundreds of students, faculty, and staff witnessed a cow grazing in Harvard Yard for the first time in living memory...

Author: By Michael D. Smith | Title: Husbanding Harvard’s Resources | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...boom box as a genie and dunked a basketball on my head. Seriously, I feel better every time I mention Kazaam. But then O'Neal said, "There's a difference between confident and arrogant. I'm a humble person. I'm not going up against a fifth-grade writer. I'm going up against the man." For a moment, I truly believed that O'Neal knew who I was. And that he should try the acting thing again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaq vs. Joel: An Essay-Writing Smackdown | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...weekend.CENTRAL SERIES ONECompeting on Upper Mystic Lake, the Crimson co-ed squad finished seventh in a field of 16 at the Central Series One regatta.Junior skipper Colin Santangelo and freshman crew Sarah McCuskee paced Harvard’s efforts in the B division, where the duo placed fifth and won two of the first three races. Second-year skipper Brendan Kopp and freshman skipper Sam Millham took turns teaming up with sophomore crew William White to take home seventh place in the A division, with a lone victory on the weekend.—Staff writer Thomas D. Hutchison...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women Lead the Way in First Weekend on the Water | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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