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Ryerson bolted out of the start, racing with skiers who placed in the 20s. The freshman may have been overly ambitious, as he spent much of the first half recovering from the early push. But a small recovery was enough to rejuvenate him as he spent the second half of the race moving up through the competition...
Using black is Tambellini’s way of evoking the infinite space that surrounds our planet. The Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, wrote, “Before me—blackness: an inky-black sky studded with stars that glowed but did not twinkle; they seemed immobilized. Space itself appears as a bottomless pit. Such intensity of black does not exist on earth.” When Tambellini read these words in 1965, he realized that he has already been striving for a similar effect with his art and films. His work...
When I walk into Boylston Hall and turn left, I’m confronted with a table; the moment I’m within the threshold of Ticknor Lounge, two school officials ask me, monotone, for the first letter of my last name. I say “C.” I look around. The place is filled with sunny silence. Dotted around the room, among the couches and deep-cushioned chairs, there are students with their heads down, some scribbling furiously, others underlining passages on the pages in front of them. There are boxes of pizza...
Mark J. Chiusano ’12 is a sophomore English concentrator in Winthrop House. The first one to make a joke about his Italian surname and his obsession with family gets his knees capped...
These are all valid criticisms, but they fail to capture the real source of Americans’ frustration. Whatever the bad rap on Obama and the Democrats, were it not for the filibuster and lock-step Republican opposition, the President would have emerged from his first year in office with three—if not more—major legislative victories. The major disability of American democracy is not Democratic fecklessness so much as the pervasive and intensifying feeling that our legislative process is broken. Yet, in spite of the swelling public exasperation with a plainly dysfunctional system, there...