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Once again, the Harvard baseball team heads into its last weekend of the season in the hunt for the Ivy League title...
...lack of data. Even when we're calm, our brains require 8 to 10 sec. to handle each novel piece of complex information. The more stress, the slower the process. Bombarded with new information, our brains shift into low gear just when we need to move fast. We diligently hunt for a shortcut to solve the problem more quickly. If there aren't any familiar behaviors available for the given situation, the mind seizes upon the first fix in its library of habits--if you can't breathe, remove the object in your mouth...
Ongoing. The Sport of the Kings: Art of the Hunt in Iran and India. Sackler Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admittance $6.50; $5 students and seniors; free with Harvard...
Lemon (Kathryn Pogson) is a neurotic young Englishwoman who sits in her London flat reading about the Nazis, whom she admires, and musing over her childhood, which was dominated by Aunt Dan (Linda Hunt), a slightly sinister friend of her parents. Aunt Dan, it turns out, is crazy, but crazy in the way some people are at cocktail parties; she is able to find a plausible argument for almost any evil that governments commit, and she has turned Lemon into her philosophical clone. "Lemon presents the justification for pure selfishness," says Shawn, "even for sadistic murder. The question is raised...
Next stop: lunch at the splendiferous Virginia Hunt Country estate of Philanthropist Paul Mellon, whose father was once Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Mellon's lunch is the smallest of all the charmed circles: fewer than two dozen guests. Later that night the couple's schedule called for a dinner at the British embassy. On Monday the couple was to make their obligatory tour of JCPenney...