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Breaking its two-match losing streak, the Harvard men’s volleyball team (8-5, 4-5 Hay) proved it still had heart as it handily defeated the Pioneers, 3-0 (30-23, 30-27, 30-16), Saturday at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson’s sweep of Sacred Heart (5-10, 0-7) boosted its home record to 6-2 and was its first at the Pavilion, where it will continue to play its home games as a result of renovations at the Malkin Athletic Center. “We came in expecting 3-0 today...
...make movies by discarding props, sets, extras and real-life locations and replacing them with their computer-generated equivalents. Cinema has always had a tenuous connection to reality; they're severing it almost completely. It's a technique loosely known as "digital back lot." George Lucas was a pioneer, as was Kerry Conran, the lonely genius responsible for the much praised, little-seen Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In Robert Rodriguez's cult hit Sin City (also based on a Miller graphic novel), practically nothing is real but the people. It's not so much cinema as synema...
...favorite definition of local comes from Columbia's Gussow, a reporter for Time in the 1950s who went on to become a local-eating pioneer. For 25 years, Gussow has lectured on the environmental (and culinary) disadvantages of relying on a global food supply. Her most oft-quoted statistic is that shipping a strawberry from California to New York requires 435 calories of fossil fuel but provides the eater with only 5 calories of nutrition. In her memoir, Gussow offers this rather poetic meaning of local: "Within a day's leisurely drive of our homes. [This] distance is entirely arbitrary...
DIED. Frank Snowden Jr., 95, Howard University classicist and pioneer in the field of blacks in antiquity; in Washington. He developed a passion for the field at the Boston Latin School and Harvard and went on to write books, including Before Color Prejudice, showing that ancient Greece was comparatively free of the violent racism that plagued later Western nations. One of the explanations he offered was that Greeks and Romans first encountered blacks as soldiers and mercenaries, not as slaves...
...G.O.P. side, McCain already has 21 of the biggest bundlers from the last Bush campaign, more than any other Republican hopeful. But Barry Wynn, a former Bush Pioneer and finance chair of his 2004 campaign, is helping Rudy Giuliani raise money in South Carolina. Giuliani's leadership post-9/11 was, of course, a factor in Wynn's choice. As for Rudy being a nontraditional Republican, for Wynn, that's exactly the point: "We need to rebuild the brand." Wynn committed after both Romney and McCain came calling. "Oh, I have had my lunches. And my breakfasts," he says with...