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...lovers of pi, their love knows no limits—transcending languages, flavors, and art forms...
Yesterday marked the Mathematics Department’s seventh annual Pi Day, and the afternoon’s festivities featured recitation competitions, eating contests, and a musical performance—all in the name of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter...
Serena J. Rezny ’07 successfully recited pi to its 1058th digit, beating out the four other contestants and surpassing the record of 866 digits that she set last year...
DIED. Horace Heidt, 85, Big Band leader of the 1930s and '40s whose Musical Knights beguiled radio fans with such hits as Hut Sut Song and Ti-Pi-Tin; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. His talent shows (Pot o' Gold, Youth Opportunity Program) launched the careers of Art Carney, Gordon MacRae and Al Hirt...
What most of these directors share is a gift for bending, sometimes gleefully mutilating, film form: taking old narratives styles like the crime movie or musical or horror film and making them fresh, vital, dangerous. The subjects could be familiar--amnesia in Nolan's Memento, obsession in Aronofsky's Pi--but when the story was told in reverse, or turned into a weird thriller, the narrative ingenuity became bracing and delicious. They were different from Hollywood--and different meant better...