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...ability to swim fast - she was, for a time, the fastest woman ever over all the freestyle distances - was a gift Shane Gould couldn't cope with. A year after winning five medals at the Munich Olympics, the Sydney-born schoolgirl was lost. For Gould the joy of swimming was the sensation of gliding through water and the process of trying to do it better; but most people seemed fixated on results. Feeling depersonalized by celebrity and curious about life beyond the pool, she lacked the will to churn out laps...
...from the sport, rarely to be seen by the public for 25 years. Comebacks seldom work. Typically, the retired athlete, deprived of the thrills of his prime, returns full of hope, only to be promptly reminded why he left: his body doesn't work like it used to. What Gould is doing amounts to a comeback: on April 1, aged 47, she'll crouch on the blocks beside teen-agers to contest the 50-m butterfly at the Australian Olympic Team Swimming Trials in Sydney. But it's a comeback of a type not known in Australian sport...
...used to teach a course with the late Stephen Jay Gould, former Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology, the late Robert Nozick, former University professor of philosophy, and, more recently, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox. In Religion 1045, “Thinking About Thinking,” we explored the roles of science, religion, philosophy and law. Gould took the view that science and religion constituted separate and entirely different “magesteria”—science being empirical and value-free, while religion is faith-based and normative...
...Mike Gould-Wartofsky ’07, who hosted the initial meeting with Rachel Bolden-Kramer ’06 and Aaron K. Tanaka ’04, described the weekend as a “campus-wide gathering of forces of change.” He said he envisions the proposed Harvard Student Union as a “force that will be strong enough to be independent of the university” and sustainable beyond the current leaders’ graduations...
...Staff writer Jessica E. Gould can be reached at gould@fas.harvard.edu...