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After weeks of furious debate about T-shirt designs, trash-talking on open lists, and age-old rituals performed to the housing gods, Housing Day finally arrived yesterday, complete with early morning wake-up calls, face paint, and screaming mascots. And just as freshmen reaction ranged from joy to tears, upperclassmen showed their House spirit in a variety of ways, from a moonbounce to a Beirut tournament. Mather House, long famed for its Housing Day fervor, gathered its army of over 100 residents to storm the Yard at 7 a.m. start, according to spirited Matherite Troy C. Murrell...
After weeks of trash-talking on open lists, furious debate about T-shirt designs, and age-old rituals dedicated to the housing gods, Housing Day arrived, a madhouse of early-morning wake-up calls, face paint, and screaming mascots. And just as freshmen reaction ranged yesterday from joy to tears, upperclassmen showed their House spirit in a variety of ways, from a moonbounce to a Beirut tournament. Mather House, long famed for its Housing Day fervor, gathered its army of over 100 residents to storm the Yard at 7 a.m., according to spirited Matherite Troy C. Murrell...
...Airbus had brought its problematic pride and joy to New York, part of a 12-day "route-proving" tour and I was along for the press preview. After a series of accelerated altitude climbs to get to an airspace directed by JFK airport flight control, the A380 cruised at 39,000 ft. At full capacity, holding 519 people, the plane would be 569 metric tons or 1.3 million lbs. And, in mid-flight, the wings would tilt up 12 feet to hold the load - looking not unlike the downward sweeping motion of a bird...
...ubiquitous blackberries, cell phones, iPods, gameboys and the Internet. We're using them to chat with people we've never met who don't even use their real names. We're typing things like LOL, c u later, and using a parenthesis and a colon to demonstrate joy, which I find awkward and desensitizing. I'm not an old fashioned guy, but the subtext is that over time it's possible that we may get so clad in electronics and isolation and distance and desensitization that we will not only lose our innocence, but we won't even think...
...real fans understand deep down that their team and its fate are simultaneously both important and meaningless. It's this contradiction that is part of the agony, the ecstasy, the religious-like joy of being a fan. The leap of faith in unison with thousands of others that what you're all watching matters profoundly. Healthy sports lovers care passionately not because they truly think sport is a matter of life and death, but despite the fact they know it's not. When fanaticism starts hurting people, killing them, even, that contradiction vanishes and so does all the joy...