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...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...
...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?...
...cost us the football game.”Sophomore backup Richard Irvin briefly replaced O’Hagan for two series to start the second half, but he only attempted one pass before being lifted. Right from the opening kick, Harvard looked outmatched. The Crimson’s Neil Sherlock muffed the opening kickoff only to recover it and have Dawson fumble on Harvard’s opening play from scrimmage, forcing O’Hagan to fall on the ball and save the possession.After a three-yard run by Dawson, O’Hagan attempted his first pass...
...marshals, who are responsible for planning both special senior events and future reunions, are Christina L. Adams ’06, Hana R. Alberts ’06, Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, Theodore E. Chestnut ’06, Jack P. McCambridge ’06, Neil K. Mehta ’06, and Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06.When the marshals—minus two, who spent the holiday weekend off campus—convened at John Harvard’s on Sunday night to congratulate each other and chat over refreshments, their conversation centered...
...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...