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...their repetitive staccato sounds like indecipherable gibberish to just about everyone else in the world except for Everett. Until he came along, no one outside of the tribe had ever become fluent in Pirahã. A few years ago, Everett made waves in the linguistics world when he challenged Noam Chomsky's idea that "recursion" - the act of combining two separate thoughts into a single sentence - was a universal trait found in all world languages. The Pirahãs don't do that, he says. They would never say, "The man who went fishing is walking back to the village...
...about. For the women, it was all about the freshmen yesterday as three fencers placed in their respective events. Leading the Crimson on the day was freshman Caroline Vloka, who placed first in the sabre event in an impressive premier performance. In the women’s epee, freshman Noam Mills finished sixth. In single elimination, Mills lost to the eventual first-place finisher in a nail-bitingly close match, 15-14. “Noam is probably our best fencer here,” Brand said. “I think she’ll do really well...
...Anna Podolsky. Fellow junior and 2007 All-American Misha Goldfeder will join the team in the spring when she returns from studying aboard.Last year the epee was the Crimson’s weakest link, but this year the squad looks to be much improved with the help of freshman Noam Mills who took last year off to fence for Israel in the Olympics. She also won the Israel senior championship four times. She will be joined by senior two-time All-American Maria Larsson and freshman Sarah Rosenberg-Wohl.The biggest question mark on the women’s side...
...Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, Dershowitz said that he uses the book, his 28th work, to challenge such public intellectuals as Noam Chomsky and President Jimmy Carter, who, in his opinion, de-legitimize the Israeli state...
From traveling to South America to learn Portuguese to interning on Wall Street, the Harvard community is hardly lacking when it comes to interesting summers.But for senior Emily Cross and freshman Noam Mills of the Harvard fencing team, this summer went far beyond the norm for even the overly ambitious Harvard students. This summer meant the fulfillment of a lifelong dream at the Olympics in Beijing.“Ever since I was a child, my biggest dream was to go and succeed there,” Mills said. “So I fulfilled the first part...