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Perhaps interviewers are in on breaking scientific research that I’m unaware of. Perhaps, a woman’s calf, when fully extended on two to three inch heels, displays some phenotypic marker of her I.Q. Perhaps the ability to see the exact shape of a woman’s kneecaps is intimately related to assessing her ability to advise corporate mergers/write for a newspaper/dissect a cadaver...
...them. At the behest of guitarist Mike Einziger's unicorn-obsessed girlfriend, a competition to draw the mythical creature was under way. Using a wooden food-service table as his canvas, lead singer Brandon Boyd has laid down a medieval unicorn with wings in thick black marker. Einziger draws something destined for a rainbow-colored sticker. The would-be groupies wait for their turns with the pen and ask for hugs and autographs when they work up the nerve, but mostly they are silent, staggered by the discovery that the rock gods of Incubus are actually more like fourth-grade...
Pirsu defeated Alexis Martire. After receiving a bye in the first round, Martire reeled off wins against Diana Perachio of Marist and Emily Marker of Maryland. Against Pirsu, she gained an early upper hand, but ultimately lost...
...stands at the end of a newly created dead-end road, half a mile from campus. All that identifies it to passers-by is a small blue historical marker set there by the city of Cambridge—and that’s the way Harvard’s presidents have wanted it. For just as the house stands as a symbol of the job, it also is a private place for reflection and a chance to escape the daily stresses of Massachusetts Hall...
...vital and alive even in a picture, even when seriously ill–and their photographs continue to line the route to the finish. By mile 24, nearing the end, past lunch at Wellesley and the miles of Heartbreak Hill and the interminable length of Brookline, those mile-marker posters take on what Amie calls “an almost totemic significance” for the walkers, who’ve now developed a slight stagger and are trying, less and less successfully, to drain the pooling blood from their hands. But mile 25 will be next, and then 26?...