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...columnist for the Times, Geist suggests a mix of Kuralt, Joe Mitchell and the ?Daily Show? traveling circus. A copy of the Jack Barth-Ken Smith classic ?Roadside America? in his back pocket, he visits the Museum of Towing, enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired) or just walks home the night of last August?s blackout. Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist?s usual game. But, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sunday Morning Going Strong | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

...Legend has it that Martin Luther had his eureka moment, which sparked the Protestant Reformation, while sitting on the toilet. Here at Harvard, we all aspire to alter history in our own ways, and nearly all of us spend a few minutes a day pondering existence on the john...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A Fluffier Harvard Experience | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

...move on almost immediately. Public opinion deemed Timberlake’s cursory initial apology sufficient; Jackson was forced to issue repeated statements of regret, first in print and later in a plaintive televised version. She was barred from last Sunday’s Grammy Awards; he performed with jazz legend Arturo Sandoval. “Saturday Night Live” compared Jackson to her brother Michael, an accused pedophile; Timberlake, who tore off her clothing, was portrayed in the skit as the naive victim...

Author: By Culture SHOCK N awe, NATHAN BURSTEIN | Title: Lessons from the Boob Tube | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

...unlike Balestracci, whose Boston-area legend did little to attract bona fide national attention during his final year of high school, O’Hagan drew more than a fleeting glance from not just a selection of the Crimson’s Ivy rivals, but a bevy of schools prominent in Division I-A. Most notably Boston College, Colorado, Minnesota and Vanderbilt tendered scholarship offers, while Stanford—where his elder brother David occupies a spot in the baseball team’s starting rotation—showed similar interest but did not make a formal...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Luck O' the Irish? Football Nabs Top Recruit | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

...sciences, the assumption is that young people are the most effective workers,” Kirshner says. “Math and theoretical physics are examples where that’s the legend, if not an established fact. In observational astronomy, that is demonstrably not true—there was a reasonably good longitudinal study of astronomers that showed their publication records, anyway, did not decline with age up to about...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Older Faculty Stay On at Harvard | 2/12/2004 | See Source »

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