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...would elaborately “bear-trap” our supplies every night when we were only a few miles from the highway was endearing rather than intimidating. The earnestness of New England camping marked a large enough contrast to my earlier, too-real outdoors experience in the isolated mountain desert that I began to let go of bad memories. I began to hope anew: maybe if wilderness meant New Hampshire, I could be Nature Girl...
...might think the highest-rated Oscar telecasts are in years when there's a close contest in the major categories, as with Crash and Brokeback Mountain two years. Nuh-uh. It's the runaway years, when billion-dollar blockbusters like Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King get what are essentially People's Choice awards, and its makers wear a path in the rug from their seats to the stage. Moviegoers who are TV viewers don't want horse races; they want coronations - validations that somebody in Hollywood is ready to honor the movies they...
...aerial views of Cambridge, downtown Boston, and the Boston Harbor, including such landmarks as Memorial Hall, MIT, and the Massachusetts State House. Most of the flight went smoothly—until the helicopter began to round Boston’s skyscrapers. “The buildings act like a mountain range,” pilot Philip Greenspun explained as the helicopter circled the John Hancock Tower, “so it’s natural to experience some turbulence.” Since he obtained his pilot’s licence in 2001, Greenspun—a computer science affiliate...
...teams, composed of students from the Harvard Republican Club, the rugby team, the Kennedy School of Government, the Spee Club, and freshmen entry-ways, took part in the event’s climbing competitions. Winners of the matches were given outdoors-themed prizes. Sporting goods companies including Eastern Mountain Sports, Patagonia, la Sportiva, and Five Ten donated $1,500 in prizes for the event, organizers said. Keller C. Rinaudo ’09, who raised 45,000 dollars for the creation of the Lowell wall and organized its construction during the summer of 2006, said he wanted to create...
...lead at intermission evaporate and fell to Lehigh, 70-61, Saturday in Bethlehem, Pa. “[It was] a total team defense collapse on our part,” junior guard Drew Housman said of the second half. The Crimson (4-6) suffered on the glass against the Mountain Hawks (5-5), who snagged 13 offensive boards to the Crimson’s four and held the overall rebounding edge, 34-25. Lehigh forward Bryan White posted a game-high 10 rebounds. Additionally, Lehigh enjoyed extra time at the charity stripe, taking 24 shots and sinking 22. Though Harvard...