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...things started on Friday in the 500-yard freestyle, winning the B final in 4:44.52 and stripping nearly three seconds off junior co-captain Alexandra Clarke’s previous record. Clarke was 13th in the event, and sophomore Christine Kaufman was 11th. “Every single person at this meet did something amazing,” Morawski said. “From day one, the emotions were just running high...They were just going out there without any set limits.”Records continued to fall on Saturday, highlighted by Pickard’s 400-yard...
...moving, there should be no more than two to four people per square meter to prevent injury. It's a simple mathematical reality. Otherwise, people do not have enough room to recover from being jostled. Someone can easily fall. Then someone else will lean down to help that person and get sucked down, too. The pile up begins, absorbing the growing pressure of all the people coming from behind...
...quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all. I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. I feel blessed that I can still do those things without too much worry. When there is a moment when I'm recognized, people are invariably gracious and very effusive about how they feel about...
...nation’s first black president, elected by the most decisive margin in two decades, it’s probably not much of a surprise that one of Harvard Law School’s favorite sons is leading Time Magazine’s online poll to be named person of the year. More unexpected is that the man in second place—albeit by a massive margin—is biologist Douglas A. Melton, the director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
...Garber’s breadth of knowledge of the themes and characters in these plays can even make the readers feel as if they have met the playwright himself, although she reminds us that we mustn’t sink to believing myths about the Shakespeare-the-person. The chapter on the “Merchant of Venice” (subtitled “The Question of Intention”) grapples with the problem of Shakespeare’s motive in the representation of Jews via Shylock. Garber seems to bring us increasingly closer to Shakespeare by means...