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...overgrown office park - which sprang up around Tysons Corner Center, the ninth largest indoor mall in the U.S. - has become the opposite of a bedroom community. Some 120,000 people work in Tysons, but only 17,000 live here. "Every morning, 110,000 cars arrive, and they all leave at 5," says Clark Tyler, a former federal transportation official and the chairman of a task force whose ambitious goal is to help transform Tysons into a full-fledged city - where people live and work and play 24 hours a day. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
This year's third (!) and most ambitious novel about Dickens is Wanting, by the Australian - or if you like, Tasmanian - writer Richard Flanagan. Wanting begins when Dickens is mourning the death of his ninth child, Dora, and feeling increasingly alienated from his wife and from himself. "They say Christ was a good man," he cracks, "but did he ever live with a woman?" Flanagan's Dickens is a man who has only ever lived emotionally through his novels. Acting in Collins' play, which was called The Frozen Deep, he sets free feelings he was accustomed to keeping tightly confined...
...coincidence that Cohen’s arrival coincided with the best season in the last 10 years for Harvard men’s lacrosse. The freshman’s 34 scores were the most ever for a Crimson rookie, and the ninth-highest single-season total in Harvard history. His 2.62 goals per game placed him third in the conference and eighth in the nation in scoring...
...October and the Princeton Invitational in April, in addition to the league championship.Harvard was further supported by the stellar play of rookie Mark Pollak, who led the Crimson in five of the 10 tournaments this season. In the 15-team Big 5 Invitational in October, Pollak finished tied for ninth, shooting 71 the first round and 75 the second. With his signature monster drives, Pollak dominated the field on long par-5 holes, leading all golfers with -4 on those holes.“He’s a great ball striker,” Shore said of Pollak...
...Harvard skiing team appeared to be able to go in its 2008-09 campaign was up. But with a rash of injuries and a few team members taking temporary leaves of absence, the Crimson’s results actually worsened this year, as the team’s consistent ninth-place finishes of 2007-08 were replaced with 10th-place efforts this winter. But despite these poor results, the Harvard skiing team performed much more competitively in comparison to its fellow New England colleges this year. While the season’s first five carnivals were marked with 10th-place...