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Just as in the previous race, the Tigers jumped out to an early advantage. This time though, they took three or four more seats on the Crimson, gaining almost a full-length advantage. The lead proved too much for the Harvard oarsmen to overcome. The Crimson finished 2.3 seconds behind Princeton in a time...
...past academic year, only a quarter of all courses offered by the College gave full-length exams, reflecting a recent trend away from that style of examination...
...first five seconds of opening track, “Odessa,” it is apparent that Caribou’s latest release, “Swim,” is very different from his last. 2007’s “Andorra,” the previous full-length release by the electronic artist and Ontario native David Snaith, was a record of textures, the kind of album that is best appreciated alone, eyes closed, with headphones on. 40-odd minutes of meandering, unpredictable soundscapes, “Andorra” waxed and waned but never climaxed, never...
...short story offers inherent advantages over the novel, stemming simply from the length, which imposes a certain focus and brevity on the author’s prose. The writer can simply offer an evocative scene, without the pressure of maintaining plot momentum and design over the course of a full-length novel. Perhaps the greatest strength of the form is that the story relies so heavily on what is left unsaid. Every gesture, every phrase, every detail in a great story takes on additional significance since it both signals the literal action and evokes everything that is left...
...wrote a draft my sophomore year; it wasn’t for course credit or anything. I just really felt like I needed to write it, and I wanted to write a full-length musical. They say to write what you know, so I took everything that I knew and threw it into the pot and called it “In the Heights,” and then over the course of the eight-year process getting “Heights” to Broadway, I learned how to write. It’s a lot of discarded songs...