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...case you were expecting to read about moshing techniques, here's a quick diving primer. Diving events make up three of the 22 categories in an intercollegiate swimming competition. The one-meter dive, three-meter dive, and the 10-meter dive are each evaluated by judges for artistic merit and degree of difficulty. After the highest and lowest marks are thrown out (no need to worry about that nasty East German judge), a composite score is calculated for each diver based on the above criteria and the competitor with the highest total wins the event, thereby earning points...
First, a science primer for those of you not up to speed on your pharmaceuticals. Cocaine and crack are two forms of the same drug. Crack is simply powder cocaine mixed with baking soda and water and heated. Therefore, anyone who possesses cocaine has the capability to turn it into crack. Next, the economics. Powder cocaine is usually sold in gram packages for between $65 and $100. Rocks of crack come in smaller, more affordable packages that cost $5 to $20. Crack is predominantly a drug of the inner city; cocaine is more prevalent among the middle and upper classes...
Harry & Teddy is a primer on those times and that TIME, which Kennedy, for one, believed was the most important force in American journalism until TV became a national medium. TIME in its dominance was a magazine with an attitude, summed up in Luce's phrase "the American century"-an era he trusted would be as Christian and Republican and triumphant as he was. White put it this way in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of History: "Freedom of the press, [Luce] held, ran two ways: His reporters were free to report what they wished; but he was free...
...Primer says that Harvard's policy influencesthe thinking of Princeton and other universities,inflating limits on university archiveseverywhere...
...wish Harvard's policies were different,"Primer says, "because it would make somedifference in our policies...