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Being named one of FM’s Most Interesting Seniors can’t be too much of an honor for someone who already holds two Olympic medals. Forward/defenseman and two-time Olympian Julie W. Chu ’06-’07 is co-captain of the Harvard women’s ice hockey team. In the middle of her final season, she ranks a close sixth on Harvard’s career scoring chart, and she has competed on the U.S. national ice hockey team since 2000, according to gocrimson.com. Chu brought home a silver medal...
...Milwaukee, Wis., had reverted to a state of lethal chaos. A Special Olympian is killed for his wallet as he waits for a bus. An 11-year-old girl is gang-raped by as many as 19 men. A woman is strangled, her body found burning in a city-owned garbage cart. Twenty-eight people are shot, four fatally, over a holiday weekend...
...some viewers, MASH was an exercise less in Olympian misanthropy than in leering misognyny, especially in its twitting of the prim Hot Lips Houlihan as a secret sexpot worthy of being exposed before the entire company as she took a shower. The curtain falls, Hot Lips is revealed naked, the medics applaud at their practical joke and feminism takes a nasty hit. (I could name one young bride who, after storming out of a screening room at the end of that shower scene, literally went home to her mother, telling her husband, "I don't want to live with someone...
...origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I thought were cogent arguments against a supernatural intelligent designer. But it does seem to me to be a worthy idea. Refutable--but nevertheless grand and big enough to be worthy of respect. I don't see the Olympian gods or Jesus coming down and dying on the Cross as worthy of that grandeur. They strike me as parochial. If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever...
...many roads that one can take to become an Olympian, the road of pure grit and dogged determination is often the bumpiest. Just ask Caitlin Cahow...