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David Mamet has me in a rear naked choke hold, and I'm quickly losing oxygen. He has knocked me to the ground and spun me on my back, with his right arm hooked tightly around my neck. He is 24 years older than I am and quite a bit shorter, but it has been determined in less than 20 seconds that he can kick my ass. "That was very good," he says, his breathing only faintly increased as I get up from the mat and suck in air. "You moved it from a double-leg takedown to a single...
...glasses shaped specifically for different grape varieties. Now Riedel has designed a new set of lead-crystal decanters inspired by the bird life of Murano, the Venetian island famed for its glassware. The three decanters boast an avian grace: the Swan's swooping body, the Flamingo's long slender neck and the Paloma's dove-like curves. And as with any Riedel product, they are masterpieces of function as well as form. Exposing wine to oxygen for a few hours before pouring can improve its taste (thanks to a chemical reaction known as aeration), so each of the $480 decanters...
...open list. “There was the skin, the body, and the head of a goat draped over a tree branch,” Means said. “On the gate facing Memorial Drive there was a head impaled, literally impaled. A post was stuck up its neck and it was facing the sky.” The animal remains had come from preparations for Dunster House’s annual spring Goat Roast. “I was just kind of sad someone would do that to the body of an animal,” Means said...
...times this boat is forced to race against heavyweights for lack of depth in other programs. Princeton, however, fielded an impressive boat that fell to Radcliffe by seven seconds. “The four did a phenomenal job,” Woodbin-Maynard said. “They were neck-and-neck with Princeton and able to pull ahead for a stretch. We were all very excited for them. Even the Princeton coach commented afterwards on how that was the race of the day.” “The third varsity four had a great race...
...team has started to challenge the top teams in the country. Four weeks ago the squad lost just 14-10 to Penn, a team that this past weekend beat three-time reigning national champions Northwestern, 11-7. Harvard lost 18-9 to No. 2 Princeton after playing neck-and-neck for the entire first half...