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...CSA’s outing to the FleetCenter was extremely popular with its members, and it’s not hard to see why Yao can have an impact even at impermeable Harvard. Asian students have been a mainstay on campus for decades now, to the point that they are sometimes considered an “over-represented minority.” Indeed, nearly a sixth of Harvard undergrads are of Asian descent, and a good portion of those can claim Chinese heritage...
Adding to Kampersal’s disappointment was his belief that the two teams were evenly matched on paper, with Harvard missing its Olympians and Princeton missing U.S. Olympian Andrea Kilbourne and U.S. national team mainstay Annamarie Holmes...
...humor, he actually liked jokes--in fact, he wrote a book about them, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. But he probably wouldn't have liked that one. Freudian psychoanalysis was one of the great innovations of the 20th century, and only 50 years ago, it was a mainstay of mental-health care. But since then it has gone from a medical and cultural institution to the punch line of a mildly dirty joke told by psychiatry residents. The members of the American Psychoanalytic Association today treat fewer than 5,000 patients in the U.S. How did the treatment...
...DIED. MADELINE JAYNES, 59, trenchant journalist who brought a talent for discerning nuance and spotting inconsistency to the New York Times, CNN and Time; of cancer; in Brooklyn, N.Y. She had been a reporter working with TIME's international editions since 1997 and had become a mainstay in the magazine's global news gathering operations...
...grew up on “Square One” and “3-2-1 Contact” (or “90210” and “21 Jump Street”) and still need your television fix, there is still one safe mainstay on television, guaranteed not to make you wish for a better anything: “The Sopranos.” I ended a five-week television drought to watch my first episode at a study break. The average Soprano is 30 percent overweight, heavily therapized and under FBI surveillance, with friends...