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...than just excellence in rowing. The rowers competing in the Beanpot donned pink jerseys and to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fight breast cancer. Amidst all this, the Black and White dominated MIT, beating every boat the Engineers sent up the river and missed the pace set by UCF’s varsity eight by just one second.Primed for Eastern Sprints, Radcliffe returned to the Cooper River in Camden and managed to put together a team second-place finish in points behind Wisconsin, which upset heavily favored Princeton for the Sprints title.Radcliffe placed fourth overall behind...
Bureaucratic impediments and rigid traditions make it hard for a 350-year-old institution like Harvard to stay on the cutting edge. Keeping pace with modern science and technology requires institutions not only to update their curricula, but also to maintain state-of-the-art facilities. But campus development for an institution like Harvard is a complicated process that involves years of planning—incorporating modern architecture and environmentally conscious practices with an aesthetic commitment to red brick neo-Georgian architecture. Development on this scale also includes accommodating all the parties involved, from students and academic departments to city...
David Lean’s direction is marred only by too slow a pace: the film did not need to run quite so close to three hours. He made brilliant use of the genuine tropical jungle against which the film was made. Scenes of marching men, jungles, hills and rivers are all tremendously effective in their CinemaScopic splendor, and the bridge goes up with a rousing blast. Moreover, every frame is closely bound up with the story: spectacle complements action instead of interfering with...
...last minute, the Supreme Court sanctioned the judicial shortcut by voting 6-3 not to stay the execution Conservative Justice William H. Rehnquist had long sought a way to speed up the pace of state executions; he now found help from the newest justice, Sandra Day O’Connor. Justices Marshall, Brennan and Stevens protested the decision: “The court of appeals... still has not acted on the merits of the [Brooks] appeal...
Paul Horowitz ’65 speaks swiftly, his mouth struggling to keep pace while his mind zips along tirelessly and rapidly from one subject to the next. A leading figure in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) community and a professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard, he radiates quirky genius...