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...team in the offseason. Usually, it’s turnover at key positions that holds the attention of fans.Sitting down before Harvard’s spring game on Saturday night, I tried to plan out some key position battles I would watch, figuring that the game would be a golden opportunity to gain insight into next fall. But instead of a long list, I came away with the impression that Crimson fans have nothing to worry about in the 2008 season. After all, it’s a good sign when the battle for the third receiver and fourth quarterback...
...Mamas and the Papas—earlier, probably—we’ve been dreaming of California, and shows like “The OC” and “Californication” have only served to whet our appetite for the excitement of the Golden State. But behind the mysterious allure of California exist hundreds of thousands of people leading unglamorous, decidedly un-chic, and unnoticeable lives. They are the California we don’t see on TV or hear on the radio, the California that isn’t L.A. gangs engaged in epic shoot...
...Velázquez’s emergence as a painter. “El Greco to Velázquez” is a concentrated slice of Spanish painting, decorative art, and sculpture that illuminates the subtle but significant shifts in politics and religion during Spain’s Golden Age. The exhibit is the first of its kind to present a comprehensive view of the stylistic changes that occurred during Philip III’s reign. Organized thematically rather than chronologically, “El Greco to Velázquez” takes the viewer through galleries of courtly portraits...
Every morning, the water looks different, glassy or choppy, sapphire-colored or muddy gray. One day, we saw a glinting spot of water as long as a rich man's yacht. My husband and I asked, What's that? A school of golden fish? It was the sun angled just so. The next time we saw it, we forgot and said, What's that...
...article on Obama's mother--one of the best I have read--drags you into the complex worlds of poverty, biracial living, racism and the pursuit of knowledge. Obama knows these issues better than many or all of the other, born-with-a-golden-spoon candidates. Prabhduev Konana, AUSTIN, TEXAS...