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...over the next four years. Weiler should continue to be a success in the Ivy League and may even surpass the number one vaulter in Crimson history, Geoff Stiles ’79, who vaulted 17 feet 3 inches at the NCAA championship in 1979. The closest anyone has gotten to Stiles is Steven Brannon ’97-’98, who came within five inches in 1995. At Gordon Track, the Crimson’s home turf, a large sign lists the men’s and women’s all-time best performances. With Weiler...

Author: By Melissa Schellberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshman Vaulter Wastes No Time | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...style, in a crystal case. By the time he finally goes to recover it he finds that his heart "had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse." Also it had gotten hairy. Rowling doesn't tell us the why of the hair, and no plot points turn on it; it's just there - one of those creepy, evocative details that participate in a logic deeper and stranger than that of plot and moral. (See pictures of Harry Potter's fans around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.K. Rowling's Beedlemania | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...grumbling.” “I know some people who have exam conflicts now,” said Ivana Djak ‘11. “I think it would have made more sense to move the exam to an earlier time so we could have gotten out in time for the inauguration.” This change in exam date came as part of a larger movement on campus by students who want to be able to take make-up exams for those exams that conflict with the inauguration. Over 2000 students face the situation...

Author: By Anita B. Hofschneider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exam Moved for Inauguration | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...officials like Dennis Walker who ride around sprawling new housing developments looking for violations of outdoor-water-use laws. Sprinklers are illegal during the daylight hours, and homeowners have to use a misting system rather than simply hose down the grass. Through ignorance or obtuseness, however, not everyone has gotten the message. At one house, Walker catches a sprinkler spraying a rock garden, the water leaking onto the boiling hot asphalt street. "That's pretty egregious," he notes laconically. He films the incident, with the time and date, and checks the address online to see if there are any prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dying for A Drink | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...India seethes with impotent rage, Pakistan belligerently asserts its innocence, and Washington despairs that its task in Afghanistan has just gotten harder. Meanwhile, in Mumbai the fires of a hundred funeral pyres shoot their flames up into a glowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Horror | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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