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Irvin, who averaged 369.2 passing yards per game in his senior year at John Muir High in Pasadena, Calif., liked what he saw in Cambridge his first time out. Ultimately, however, he chose to head south to play for the Division I-A Green Wave...
...local identity alive creates problems as newcomers buy, for outrageous amounts, the crumbling buildings that represent the last-century lives of the vanishing generation. Keeping tribal cultures alive is money-draining in today's world. Doesn't it all come down to cuisine, music, dance, costume and language? Gillian Muir Westray, Scotland The differences among diverse languages and cultures are fascinating, but they help maintain walls between peoples. For most of us, it's important to know our cultural identity, but at what expense do we try to keep it? If not for the constant change and development of cultures...
...Shaughnessy Dam was stirring controversy even before 1913, when the U.S. Congress, against the impassioned pleas of conservationist John Muir and his Sierra Club, voted through a bill allowing its construction. But though the debate is not new, the context has changed dramatically. On one hand, free-running rivers, unobstructed by dams, have become a rarity, which has increased their aesthetic, ecological and recreational value. On the other hand, with recent experience of protracted drought and soaring energy costs, Western states in particular are more worried than ever about the security of both their water supplies and sources of hydropower...
...Quad students will temporarily lose the squash courts and both basketball courts, leaving them with the option of using Hemenway Gym at Harvard Law School, the Squash facilities across in the Muir Center in Allston, or the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) by the River Houses...
...people are able to schedule their work out in those moments when the building isn’t overtaxed, I think things should be OK. They should be able to find out from monitors at the front desk what the timing is, and of course there is always Muir for squash and the MAC also,” Dingman wrote in an e-mail...