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...while a more difficult time was had for skipper Liz Powers and crew Michelle Konstadt in B-division. That pair took No. 12, though just ten points separated Harvard and the five teams that finished ahead of the Crimson.Boston College won the event, followed by Yale, Tufts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Roger Williams.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...Western canon anymore (the pragmatist will object that at least they can read, as well as feed their families). A familiarity with canonical texts is no longer considered an essential prerequisite of citizenship in our society. More and more, humanities departments are resembling Swift’s fanciful flying island of Laputa, in which abstracted philosophers hover over the common people, lost in sterile speculative dreaming. Indeed, the Harvard Task Force on General Education has ratified this irrelevance by subjugating the study of literature to insipid notions of cultural inquiry in their recent October 2006 report...
...days, polls from the Washington Post/ABC News, the Pew Research Center and Gallup, all have shown a Democratic advantage on the so-called generic ballot - asking voters whether they will pick the Democratic or Republican congressional candidate in their district - narrowing. Democratic leads in key Senate races in Rhode Island and Montana have disappeared, leaving party strategists less optimistic about their chances of winning the Senate. Aside from expected seat pickups in Ohio and Pennsylvania, "everything else is questionable," said one party strategist working on Senate races, with races in Missouri, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia still fiercely contested...
Chast, 51, wasn't supposed to be a cartoonist. When she was at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1970s, she wanted to be a painter. "Cartooning was not anything that was looked on very positively," she says. "You were trying to communicate with people, which was very tacky. Definitely a no-no." Fortunately, she wasn't very good at painting, so she turned her efforts elsewhere. Some artists take years to evolve their individual sensibility, but Chast was Chast from the very first cartoon she sold, which was titled "Little Things." It's the first cartoon...
...whose features must be studied carefully before they can be classified as a new species. "We are really only scratching the surface," he says. "Every time anybody goes searching in P.N.G. anywhere, they find new things." Richards estimates that 350 species of frog have been identified on the island of New Guinea, but predicts the number will eventually pass 600. With frog populations worldwide under threat from habitat destruction, fungus infections and introduced predators, Richards, whose research is funded by Conservation International, believes recording the amphibians is of vital importance. "New Guinea, outside of the Amazon and some areas...