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...four Grand Slam finals this year, three straight Wimbledon titles, and another three straight at the U.S. Open—and he’s only 25 years old.All those who know Blake, including his collegiate coach and current Harvard men’s tennis coach Dave Fish ’72, understand what would be needed from James to climb this high wall.“James had gotten bit by bit better over the last years,” Fish said. “But Federer makes you play the best...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blake Brilliant Against Federer | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...especially lucky or live in the Quad and visit Anya Bernstein often. Come second semester of junior year, you may be hard-pressed to find a thesis adviser. Generally you need to venture to other departments and compete with the students who are actually in them to fish for thesis advisers. (The lucky few will get a tutorial leader whose specialized field is right up their alley.) Students choose to focus their thesis on theory or field research abroad (developing countries seem popular). Either way, your research topic still needs to be of high theoretical, not just personal, interest (read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Studies | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

Even industry leader Nike is constantly upping the technical quotient in its designs. This year it introduced Sphere Macro React, a two-layer panel of fabric arranged like fish scales that adjusts to body heat; as heat builds, the top layer peels away to reveal a cooler, meshlike skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motion Commotion | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

What the President wouldn't say, especially in a political season, is that he and the rest of the government have learned quite a bit from their early errors. What is widely known inside the Administration is that once we caught our first decent-size fish--Abu Zubaydah, in March 2002--we used him as an experiment in righteous brutality that in the end produced very little. His interrogation, according to those overseeing it, yielded little from threats and torture. He named countless targets inside the U.S. to stop the pain, all of them immaterial. Indeed, think back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unofficial Story of the al-Qaeda 14 | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

OUTSIDER DJ SHADOW IN THE SMALL pond of sampled instrumental electronic music, DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) isn't just the big fish; he's the only fish. Perhaps recognizing that the water is getting a little brackish, Shadow varies the formula on his latest with a folk ballad, a soul jam and a delicate guitar symphony as emotional as a telenovela. (Qu dramtico!) His more conventional hip-hop tracks pose no threat to commercial radio, but they're perfect platforms for Bay Area rappers Keak Da Sneak and Lateef the Truth Speaker to say the things Shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 5 Captivating New Albums For -- and By -- All Ages | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

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