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...Currier House caper has its residents tickled by the second disappearance of their Sesame Street mascot. “Elmo is gone again,” Patricia G. Pepper, assistant to the master, announced in an e-mail to a House list Friday. “Elmo” refers to a painting of the red-furred Sesame Street character that normally hangs on the lower main level of the House. Even its name has furred eyebrows. “I don’t like that people refer to it as the ‘Elmo painting...
...newspapers, and The Crimson in particular, retain that trust? By remembering that the reader comes first, and that we exist above all to serve our community. Nothing is journalism that “does not regard the reader...as a master to be served,” former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll has said. (The Crimson is, of course, different from professional papers like the Times in that it also has an educative function, and exists to train its reporters as journalists. These dual missions need not be exclusive of each other...
...genuine achievement," Shah writes on the last page, "that by embracing the challenge we were stronger and in some way more complete." But Shah's story didn't end with the book. The family has settled into its mostly renovated house, which adjoins a muddy shantytown. From the master bedroom, where rain is dripping through the ceiling and his son, Timur, now 2, is shouting for attention, the author reflects on his Moroccan adventure. "There's a wonderful balance of life here," he says. "The family is central, and the Moroccans love children - even on trains when mine are vomiting...
...sequentially, says David E. Meyer, director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan: "The toll in terms of slowdown is extremely large--amazingly so." Meyer frequently tests Gen M students in his lab, and he sees no exception for them, despite their "mystique" as master multitaskers. "The bottom line is that you can't simultaneously be thinking about your tax return and reading an essay, just as you can't talk to yourself about two things at once," he says. "If a teenager is trying to have a conversation on an e-mail chat line...
...potential,” Haviland says. “It was tough. Especially considering [on] Saturday and Sunday, the bats swung well enough to win.” The team’s pitching jitters evidently showed themselves in the team’s inability to master the changeup. “You can’t choke it; you can’t overthrow,” Haviland says. In the end, the Crimson was too “pumped up.” “We need to get relaxed, get more comfortable,” Cole...