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University President Lawrence H. Summers may not know it, but he’s making a name for himself in the world of hip hop. As the star of a new online flash animation “Shaniqua,” a collaborative venture between Leverett House blockmates, Summers narrates the search for an elusive “Shaniqua,” rapping the refrain “Shaniqua don’t live here no more” from hit single by hip-hop artists Little T and One Track Mike...
...clip is the latest venture of the blockmates’ production company, Flash-in-the-Pan Productions. Last May the group released its first animation “The End of Harvard,” which chronicled a series of House wars as well as general campus mayhem...
...meditation or prayer, Newberg found, the more active the frontal lobe and the limbic system become. The frontal lobe is the seat of concentration and attention; the limbic system is where powerful feelings, including rapture, are processed. More revealing is the fact that at the same time these regions flash to life, another important region--the parietal lobe at the back of the brain--goes dim. It's this lobe that orients the individual in time and space. Take it off-line, and the boundaries of the self fall away, creating the feeling of being at one with the universe...
...suddenly, there you are, right in the middle of it. You’re not sure how you got there, but now you’re lost amid the flash of cameras, inexplicably surrounded by the music of the just generally inexplicable Harvard University Band. You’ve become a bystander at a crime scene, a rubbernecker on the highway, a solemn attendant of your own funeral. And you can’t leave...
...Flash forward: at the helm of his yacht Tenacious, Ted Turner battled 40-ft. waves for four hours in a storm that claimed 19 lives and disabled 210 of 302 vessels in a four-day ocean race in 1979. Turner not only lived to successfully launch an unlikely venture--a 24-hour cable news network called CNN, in 1980--but also won the sea race and later said that even during the worst of the storm his mind was on finishing first...