Word: letting
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...think they played a pretty bad defense, actually," Gellert said. "It was just that our offense wasn't as strong. We can't let them shoot 59 percent in the second half and expect...
Dartmouth (5-2-0, 5-2-0) is taking as long as possible to let its Thanksgiving turkey digest. The Big Green has not played since last Tuesday, and its next game is Dec. 11 at Minnesota. Dartmouth will not resume ECAC action until Jan. 5 at Boston College, which will allow everyone else to build up a substantial lead over the Big Green in the conference standings...
...another phone call. But for all our high-tech wizardry, my friends still get a busy signal even if I'm just deleting junk e-mail or downloading a song. I may get a little drowsy at the keyboard, but I can still multitask--if only my PC will let...
...from his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, the 26 months Thoreau had spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations and let the natural objects he studied speak for him. He hoped, in short, to be less romantic and more scientific...
...awaits us in the next century were incredible and full of useful information [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8]. Although we may live longer, resist baldness, cure innumerable diseases, grow and transplant brains, choose to be obese, eat less meat, reduce waste and not need to have sex to have babies, let's not forget to play. Play is essential for maintaining well-being. This will be especially true if we live longer and healthier lives. We'll need to lighten up and not be self-congratulatory in old age. MARC BEKOFF Professor of Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Colo...