Word: neils
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...Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard); of a heart attack; in Smyrna, Tennessee. Born to wealth, Van Zandt spent part of his teens institutionalized for manic depression. At one point he became so poor he subsisted on dog food. But his songs influenced generations of country and rock singers, from Neil Young to the Cowboy Junkies...
...Neil DeGrasse Tyson owes his colleague Michael Brown a big thank-you--and flowers wouldn't be a bad idea either. Back in 2000, Tyson, an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, triggered an international furor when he decreed that in his prestigious establishment Pluto would no longer be listed as a planet. Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years...
...victory over Dartmouth on Saturday.Silva’s 353 total yards eclipsed the school record set by Gil Fenerty, who gained 335 yards against Columbia in 1983.Holy Cross (5-2) scored on its opening possession on a three-yard pass from John O’Neil to Gideon Akande at 5:41 of the first quarter. Silva found Sean Gruber on a three-yard halfback option pass to make it 14-0 at 14:27 of the second quarter.Silva then scored on a one-yard run, and returned a punt 87 yards as time ran out in the first...
...which is surrounded by final clubs, bars, and food joints, would be an ideal location for a student center. But it never will be. And worst of all, it never had a chance. The lot was quietly given away to the library by then-Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine four years ago.“I don’t know what made him choose the library,” says Director of the Harvard University Library Sidney Verba ’53. “I think maybe KSG and FAS expressed interest, but I don?...
...disgust. “I put that on me, not thinking the right things out there sometimes, and it cost us the football game.”On Harvard’s first possession, the Crimson’s turnover trouble reared its ugly head immediately. Junior kick returner Neil Sherlock promptly fumbled and recovered the opening kickoff. Then, on the first play from scrimmage, the usually sure-handed Clifton Dawson was unable to hang on to a sloppy handoff from sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan, fumbling for only the fifth time in his career but the third...