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...academics from the Music department, but my home base at Harvard is the basement of Memorial Church," says Billett, a member of the Din and Tonics. "That's where I'll come back and visit. When I have nothing to do in the afternoon I go down there and knock on Murray's door and see how he's doing...
...using his inspection as justification. “Basically, I get all dressed up in my bathrobe, my soap on a rope and my sandals, and I make my way down to said shower to take a shower. If it’s a girls’ shower, I knock, make sure no one is in there, slip quietly in, clean myself and slip quietly out. If it’s a guys’ shower, I’m not quite as cautious for obvious reasons.” The extremist proceeds to return to his domicile, outside...
...Harvard women's tennis team made its Ivy League debut last weekend and emerged undefeated in its conference. Neither the wind nor the improved play of Cornell and Columbia could knock the Crimson (8-9, 2-0 Ivy) off its game, but both made the playing environment more difficult than the actual scores indicate...
...mental images to moral sense, from mundane memories to acts of genius, has been tied to tracts of neural real estate. Using fMRI, a new scanning technique that measures blood flow, scientists can tell whether the owner of the brain is imagining a face or a place. They can knock out a gene and prevent a mouse from learning, or insert extra copies and make it learn better. They can see the shrunken wrinkles that let a murderer kill without conscience, and the overgrown folds that let an Einstein deduce the secrets of the universe...
...Next Best Thing, there are other obvious choices. Since her first child, Lourdes, shares a name with the French town famous for a sighting of the Virgin Mary, perhaps Ms. Ciccone should consider some names where other apparitions have been reported. Among the possibilities: Blangy, Pellevoisin, Gietrzwald, Knock and Cincinnati. Of course, there's always On a Potato...