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Where is the Festivus Pole app, commemorating the holiday's traditional, simple, unadorned aluminum pole? Or what about a Grievances List app, so that one can keep track of all the things people did during the past year that disappointed? It would certainly help observers recite them during the Airing of Grievances, which typically occurs after Festivus Dinner...
...type freshman Nico Weiler’s name into Google, it won’t take you long to realize that he is a pole vaulter, now beginning his first season of track and field at Harvard. Then you’ll realize something else—he’s really good. “I think he’s going to be extremely successful,” Harvard Coach Will Thomas says. “The sky’s the limit for Nico as far as what he can accomplish this year and the next four...
...depth to our 400, which we haven’t had in a lot of years.”And on the men’s side, newcomer Nico Weiler finished in a three-way tie with unattached Northeastern freshman Brian McGovern and Northeastern alum Mike Couch in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.72 meters.“Nico’s a tremendous athlete,” Saretsky said. “Working off a short approach, he shut it down early.”Senior Shannon Flahive tied for fifth in the 200-meter dash, sharing...
...meets will provide ample opportunity for the rookies to make their marks in their respective events. One such newcomer, Nico Weiler, will help bolster the men’s vault, which last year only had two competitors. The Stuttgart, Germany native was the under-18 World Champion in the pole vault in 2006 and was named to the All-USA team by USA Today this year. “Nico is ridiculous,” Chenoweth said. And with the graduation of captain Brian Holmquest, freshmen like Ryan Neely are already fit to fill in. Neely led the Crimson effort...
Indeed, the causes of physical illness and death among psychiatric patients are much the same as those in other groups - cigarette smoking, obesity, diabetes - and are treatable. The problem is that people with serious mental illness tend to be low on the socioeconomic totem pole and often don't get the best available health care. Frequently, their own doctors pay little heed to their patients' physical health. "Medical doctors think, 'Well, they're crazy,' so they don't take their concerns seriously," says Wendy Brennan, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in New York City. "Their...