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...musical family who still plays his father's Bechstein, Sacks has a strong empathy for the loss suffered by the many neurally damaged musicians who have found their way to him. Most touching of all is his tale of Clive Wearing, an English musician stricken in 1985 with a post-brain-infection amnesia so devastating that from one minute to the next he does not know who, where or what he is. At 69, just two things are unscathed in his inner life: a profound love for his wife and the ability to sing or play on the piano...
Meanwhile, challenger Sam Seidel, a wonkish Harvard-trained urban planner coming off of a narrow loss in 2005, won a place on the council, and Councillor David P. Maher, who was elected in a special election in September, retained his seat...
...weeks of intense sleep deprivation, physical challenges, mental games and manipulation, I marvel at the vibrant, active, and happy college student that was utterly destroyed by the process. For many people who go through this process, the depth of cumulative practical sacrifice (social isolation from their community; loss of time for schoolwork) and emotional investment (enduring verbal abuse, emotional attachment to other pledges, fear of failure) hinders their ability to stop, as it did mine. While many boldly proclaim what they would or would not let happen to them if they ever “pledged,” they...
...About a month after BC ended its season with a double-overtime loss to Minnesota-Duluth at the NCAA Frozen Four, controversy struck the Eagles...
...Kessler led Harvard to a 21-6-2 record. But playoff time meant decision time, and Stone awarded Martin the starting job for the team’s run in the postseason. Martin turned in a career-best performance, posting a stunning 67 saves in a quadruple-overtime loss to Wisconsin. “I think she played out of her mind in the Wisconsin game,” Stone says. “If you could duplicate that every day, you would have lightning in a ball.”But Stone also cites the old sports adage that...