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...Winter Olympics where hyped athletes tumbled from grace, a little-known Japanese figure skater became a surprise star by keeping her tush off the ice. SHIZUKA ARAKAWA beat favorites Sasha Cohen of the U.S., who won the silver, and Irina Slutskaya of Russia, who took home the bronze. Arakawa, 24, considered retiring in 2004 and finished ninth at last year's world championships. But she stuck with it to please her dad and wound up scoring Japan's first figure-skating gold and becoming a national hero. Happy now, Mr. Arakawa? --By Alice Park...
...course a ringmaster, invade a wedding, at which “the poor groom’s bride is a whore” and is found kissing a mime. While this has been done before, what the video lacks in originality it makes up for in exuberance. Its saving grace is a complete lack of self-seriousness. Swirling camerawork around clowns, mimes, unicyclists, and sundry other performers is just fun and weird, with no ulterior motive. They also get credit (and a place in my nightmares) for painting stylized eyes on the eyelids of performers, a great surreal touch...
...contagious qualities of laughter. He spent another thirty seconds showing it again (“Too much, too much. I’ll post the URL.”). The week before, he played excerpts from “Seinfeld” and “Will and Grace...
...your own life,” she said. Students said the television clips Ben-Shahar shows in lecture make the content of the course more applicable to everyday life. “I draw on many psychologists, including Seinfeld and Karen from ‘Will and Grace,” Ben-Shahar joked. Christina L. Adams ’06, a government concentrator, said she is taking “Positive Psychology” for professional reasons. “I decided it was a good idea to examine from an academic perspective what it is that creates happiness...
Perhaps you’re the first of your clan to matriculate here. Great! So, you can think of your great-great grandfather, back in the old country—be it Ireland, Romania, Pakistan, or Polynesia. Would he have ever guessed that his progeny would one day grace the Yard? Did he even know what the Yard was? Think of your grandmother—have you brought her unique mannerisms and quirks to Harvard? Think of your uncle—will he one day be able to say that his niece was in junior tutorial with a future...