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Upon starting to lecture, every professor at Harvard should have three things at his or her disposal: chalk, a visual projector and 35 inches of lead pipe. All three are tools for teaching a lesson, but I feel the third would make the point most bluntly. And the professor would be required to use it every time a student’s phone goes...

Author: By Kenyon S. Weaver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RANT! | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...This is huge for us," Powers kept saying after soaring 18-ft. off the top of the pipe - major amplitude, dude - which earned him 46 out of 50 possible points on the first of his two final runs. The rest of his competitors spent the day falling out of the sky like shot ducks as they sailed and failed to overtake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At These Games, X Marks the Sports | 2/20/2002 | See Source »

...huge for the Olympics, too, because the half pipe has become a happening, much like beach volleyball did at Bondi beach in Sydney. Nobody does a slow-mo wave at luge. "No one [of us] has seen people like that for a half-pipe contest," Thomas said. The trio admitted being awed by the crowd. "We're just stoked we got to come here," said the usually sarcastic Kass. Saving himself, he teased that, "I'm going to cry at the medal ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At These Games, X Marks the Sports | 2/20/2002 | See Source »

...that captured this history, such as Twain’s oft-cited Adventures of Huck Finn. Similarly, this eradication would endow the word with more destructive power and heighten its taboo. The idea that the elimination of a racist term will eliminate racism itself is nothing more than a pipe dream...

Author: By Michelle Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Word That Speaks Volumes | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

...Winter Olympics. It's a TV-friendly contest, and the U.S. should dominate. The halfpipe is a U-shaped channel carved in the snow in which riders do lip tricks and airs, including rotations, before landing. Amplitude, the height of each trick off the lip of the pipe, is key, as is style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowboarding: It's Halfpiping Hot | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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