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...field is very broad. An orthopedic surgeon can spend his or her day casting babies' club feet, sewing an artery whose cross section is smaller than the dot on this i or hammering a foot long chunk of steel into someone's thigh bone with a (sterile) five pound maul - all in the name of good will toward man. Our patients generally get better and the uniquely orthopedic interaction of science and humanity makes for a great richness of experience in our everyday lives. Ask any doc - ortho is fun. And while not much of a relativist, I can imagine...
...Murphy and the Crimson. This time, Harvard led 28-24 late in the fourth quarter when Princeton had third and four in Crimson territory. On the ensuing play, senior free safety Danny Tanner broke up a pass to tailback Rob Toresco and proceeded to turn toward his teammates and pound his chest...
...line a year ago was one of the difference-makers in that game.The most questionable call of this game, though, will be remembered for what might not have happened.An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on safety Danny Tanner with less than five minutes to play in the game, after a chest-pound that followed a broken pass, led to Princeton’s deciding touchdown. The jury was still out on whether it was, at that crucial juncture of the game, the right call by the referees.“We got called on a penalty the same in the first half...
...FROM POUND HALL TO THE HALLS OF CONGRESS...
Like thousands of graduating seniors at the height of the recruiting season last month, Vayner sent out a resumé. In his case, it catalogued a bizarre but impressive array of accomplishments—Aleksey had a 140-mph tennis serve and a 500-pound bench press, he had authored a book touted as “a unique gendered perspective on the Holocaust,” and he was CEO of a non-profit that helped disadvantaged children...