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...Harvard defense, which has been the most compelling preseason question, can take comfort in one interesting fact. Captain Brian Ramer seems to like playing Columbia. Last season, the senior picked off two Lion passes in the fourth quarter and garnered a place on the ECAC weekly honor roll for his performance. Look for Ramer to have another...
...Africa and is now charge d'affaires in Eritrea, considered him a rock-steady operative who "knew exactly what he was getting into. When things were going bad," he recalls, "you'd count on Freddie to be quiet, thoughtful, and then go out and stick his head in the lion's mouth...
...Picasso and Miro -- a nationalist illusion. The British pavilion, which in previous Biennales walked away with the show -- Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and the sculptor Tony Cragg -- contains a disappointing survey of recent work by one of the fathers of Pop art, Richard Hamilton, who split the Golden Lion, or main prize, with Tapies...
Four and a half years after the end of Iran's disastrous war with Iraq, nearly four years after Ayatullah Khomeini's death, a happier national spirit is struggling to emerge. The problem for outsiders is to square what sometimes appears to be a Persian lamb with a notably lion-like personality. The superficial prosperity of Tehran is illusory. Because of war and runaway population growth -- estimated at 3.6% a year, though that may be declining -- per capita economic output has shrunk about 40% since 1979. Many factories are running at only 40% to 50% of capacity...
Unlike the sunny-dispositioned dolphins, sea lions radiate intensity. Schusterman chose them for his research because they are easily trained. He did not attempt to teach seven-year-old Rio a language. Instead, he wanted to determine if the female sea lion could understand logical relationships between symbols presented on poster boards. For instance, by rewarding the sea lion selectively, trainers taught Rio that a symbol looking like a mug was equivalent to one that looked like a watch. Then she was taught that the watch symbol was equivalent to a third symbol that looked like a bomb. The question...