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...lacrosse team steps onto the field to face Cornell on Saturday it will be walking onto the turf of Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.—home of the New England Patriots.The 68,000-seat stadium, which normally displays players such as Tom Brady, Randy Moss, and Tedy Bruschi, will host its first ever lacrosse games in a Saturday doubleheader, starting with the Crimson taking on the Big Red at noon.“It’s a great opportunity for our kids to play in a great venue,” Crimson coach John Tillman said...
...Traction control is history. The FIA has banned it for this season (along with launch control, which through comparable mechanisms made starting races easier for drivers and more predictable for fans). Its abolition has been widely applauded. British F1 pioneer Stirling Moss calls traction control an "appalling device." Jones argues that fans come to the track first and foremost to see superb driving. "You don't see all the technical bulls___ that's going on underneath," he says. "People want to see overtaking, locking up brakes, cars going sideways coming out of a corner because the driver...
...gives us a full helping of backstage gossip, from a drunken, amorous Richard Burton to an explosively flatulent Rex Harrison. Andrews comes across as plainspoken, guilelessly charming and resoundingly tough. Maybe too tough--she lets us backstage, but she never quite takes us upstairs, into her head. (Moss Hart, trying gamely to get Andrews to emote in My Fair Lady, said, sighing, "She has that terrible British strength that makes you wonder how they ever lost India.") But she shows us where the toughness comes from: only somebody who fought her way out of the muck could ever be that...
...documentary—and, some would hold, of art in general—is to make plain the unclear. “Secrecy,” the new documentary from History of Science professor Peter L. Galison ’77 and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) professor Robb Moss, inverts this idea. It explores the U.S. government’s systems of classification and official concealment used to keep sensitive information from the public.The filmmakers trace the precedent of the State Secrets Privilege back to a 1953 Supreme Court decision in which the widow of Robert Reynolds...
After Harvard professors Peter L. Galison ’77 and Robb Moss screened the first act of their new documentary “Secrecy” to students, one raised his hand and asked, “What are the secrets?” While “Secrecy” focuses less on actual secrets than the structure of government censorship, it reveals the dark and hidden realities of democracy.In June 2004, Galison and Moss began shooting their film “Secrecy,” with the intent of exploring the architecture of the secrecy system...