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...because Sandy's muscles - ripped around his broken hip, and squashed by his body weight on the hard floor - were producing myoglobin, which, along with dehydration and low blood pressure, was poisoning his kidneys. In the hospitals where I trained, this case would have been a "save" - a great grand rounds case. But here, especially with no family hovering, the only human audience was the crew taking care...
...proud. After sustaining injuries and disappointment in their first competition in March (following a 20-year competition drought), the Harvard cheerleading team stunted their way to victory at the recent Minute-Man Mass Championship in Washington, D.C., earning the squad of 19 the title of “Grand Champions.” But the cheerleading team’s path to victory has not been a flawless one. The team acknowledges that for many, the term “Harvard cheerleader” is the ultimate oxymoron. Cheerleader Cassie E. Snow ’10 describes spectators?...
...Brahmin was summoned by the ailing monarch of what was then a princely state under British tutelage. Numerous doctors had failed to cure the king's affliction, but the yogi succeeded within a few months, and the king rewarded him by building him a yogashala (yoga school) in his grand palace. It was here that the yogi, T. Krishnamacharya, developed Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga - a comparatively aerobic style whose devotees include the likes of Madonna and Sting, and thousands of hipsters from Tokyo to New York. But it was necessity, rather than the body-toning concerns of Western fashionistas, that shaped...
...Kitovitz said. “I thought there was a positive response from the boat all week. Everybody just knuckled down a bit and thought of what they could do to get us a win.”Every Harvard-Princeton race, whether an April dual showdown or a Grand Final slugfest at Camden in June, carries with it a special intensity. Saturday’s meeting on the Charles was no different.Harvard overcame an early deficit off the start with a powerful final 1,500 meters, overcoming Princeton’s early six-to-eight seat advantage...
Other areas where the press's (if not the public's) appetite for policy outstripped the Pope's was a range of issues that he either soft-pedaled or failed to pronounce on at all this week. He did not address Iraq. He did not make any grand statements about conflict or dialogue with Islam, a dynamic that had dominated previous trips abroad. He did not address the question of denying communion to pro-choice politicians, although he did call their actions a "scandal." Nor did he deliver a major dressing-down of liberal Catholic educators that some had anticipated...