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...improvements in her final season included a new personal record at the HYP meet, helping the women to a decisive victory over Yale and Princeton. She set her new personal record at 1.91 meters, a mark that is second on the Crimson’s all-time list. Yet throughout all of her accomplishments, Christensen never appeared distracted by the allure of records...
There are some things Harvard students have come to expect in the month of May: improved weather, online TV episodes during reading period, and lots of e-mail spam regarding senior sales. One thing that should be added to this list of May mainstays is the presence of the Harvard sailing team in national championship regattas. After the women’s squad’s one-year hiatus from the national championship, the Crimson’s co-ed and women’s teams qualified for all three of their national affairs, with the contests taking place...
Peter Serafinowicz, an actor, says there's a perfectly good explanation for his tweet - "Went to the gym this morning. As I left, everyone said I was the best!" - an observation that earned him a spot on the site's all-time-worst list. "At my local gym, most of the guys (losers) are jealous of me, as (I don't wish to boast) I'm in great shape. I'm pretty sure that they call me names when I'm not around," he wrote in an e-mail. So when his gym mates congratulated him for bench-pressing...
...Some also charge that religious intolerance was behind France's infamous 2004 law banning students from wearing "ostensible religious objects" in public schools - a prohibition designed mainly to eliminate the small but slowly growing number of Muslim headscarves in classrooms. As it did when France issued its dangerous-cults list, the U.S. government officially responded to the law banning religious objects with a request that Paris make greater efforts to respect religious freedoms. (Read "'Veil Wars' Reveal Europe's Intolerance...
...know if Beijing has had a change of heart relative to its neighbor? Diplomats and intelligence sources say the evidence will come in two phases. In April, after the missile launch, Beijing did not stand in the way when three North Korean companies were moved from a U.S. sanctions list to a U.N. sanctions list - meaning that all nations are obliged to cut off business ties to those companies. The breadth of the sanctions now is likely to be much wider: not only must Beijing not run interference for North Korea, diplomats say, it needs to actively enforce whatever measures...