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Modest people don’t usually have a killer instinct. Such is not the case for the Harvard women’s hockey team’s humble freshman, Julie Chu, who also happens to be one of the Crimson’s deadliest offensive weapons, a potent goal-scorer with blazing speed and an incredible knack for finishing...
...numbers or accolades—he has both in spades—but the true measure of a valuable player is his ability or lack thereof to make his teammates better. Over the course of his four years in Cambridge, he has improved from a skilled scorer to a potent, all-around player that can just as easily juke a defender as direct a perfect puck to an open teammate across the ice. And his contributions to the hockey program and the folks in the seats at the Bright Hockey center have not gone unnoticed...
Evidence for that heady contention was on display in the Crimson’s last two games of the season. Despite Harvard losing both games, Moore acquitted himself as the most potent offensive weapon and one of the best defensive players among the best teams in the ECAC and in Hockey East. Against Cornell and BU, Moore outshined Ithacans like Stephen Baby and Ryan Vsece, and Terriers like Ryan Whitney...
...perennial debate about nature and nurture--which is the more potent shaper of the human essence?--is perennially rekindled. It flared up again in the London Observer of Feb. 11, 2001. REVEALED: THE SECRET OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR, read the banner headline. ENVIRONMENT, NOT GENES, KEY TO OUR ACTS. The source of the story was Craig Venter, the self-made man of genes who had built a private company to read the full sequence of the human genome in competition with an international consortium funded by taxes and charities. That sequence--a string of 3 billion letters, composed in a four...
...year? That's the number Dia hopes for. So does the State of New York and Beacon and its surrounding towns, which have chipped in $2.7 million toward the project so far and have visions of Guggenheim Bilbao dancing in their heads. Dia: Beacon offers some of the most potent art experiences to be found anywhere, in some of the most well-considered settings. But it was conceived largely to present difficult work for long durations in one space. And for much of what it offers, difficult is the word...