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...include the Ferrari driven by Michael Schumacher when he clinched the company's fifth consecutive Formula One Championship in 2003, and the Ducati Desmosedici motorbike that bore Australian Casey Stoner to victory at the 2007 MotoGP World Championship. But television has acquainted us with these streamlined, postmodern missiles; more precious is the chance to see the Fiat that won the 1907 French Grand Prix. Its frame now seems impossibly frail, but in their time, vehicles like this prompted the founder of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, to exult that racing cars were more "beautiful than the Nike of Samothrace...
...pose a problem last year when I had a single in Canaday, which allowed me and my girl, who I will call “Maude,” to be intimate at any hour of the day. But moving out of the Yard meant giving up my precious coital quarters for a double I now share with my roommate, “Skeeter,” in Dunster. To make matters even worse, our double is a walk-through, with my bedroom inconveniently in the middle. As a result, Skeeter has walked in on me and Maude...
...Harvard students so overextended that they procrastinate research papers by doing problem sets, time spent legitimately “vegging-out” is a precious resource. It often surprises newcomers, then, to find the potential to maximize such leisure time stifled by the lack of a resource essential to truly uninhibited lounging—cable television. While most, including the University, have sat silently by, one particularly entrepreneurial student, Nicholas J. Castine ’09 took charge. Motivated by his longing for the soothing song of SportsCenter and sitcoms upon his arrival at Harvard as a transfer student...
...streets of Verona, where Romeo (Nelson Madrigal) pines over Rosalind as his cousins bite their thumbs—or, rather, kick their legs—at the Capulets. The set transforms to reveal the interior of a ballroom, where Romeo and Juliet (Larissa Ponomarenko) first meet. Sadly, the precious moment in the text where Romeo absolves his sins on Juliet’s lips, then kisses her again to retrieve them, is sacrificed. The act closes with the famous balcony scene, lacking in both passion and a balcony, as Romeo athletically hangs from the edge of a bridge-like structure...
Some years, size matters. Remember Josh, the Newfoundland the size of a minivan, which took the top prize four years ago? Some years are precious and prim, a papillon with attitude. But in this age of Authenticity, the beagle romped past the poodles, all fluffed and clipped, and the terrier, whose kin have taken Best in Show more than 40 times. Sometimes change beats experience. "I'm lucky to be at the end of his leash," said his trainer, Aaron Wilkerson, as Uno proceeded to chew on the microphones of reporters hoping for an interview...