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...over Radcliffe Yard, the mourners solemnly covered a ceremonial blanket with money, tobacco, and wampum destined for the family of Clarence D. “Duane” Meat ’05-’07, who died Wednesday after being shot in Minneapolis. One by one, they ran their hands over their faces and through their hair, miming the motions of cleansing that the Native American ceremony is meant to evoke. As four men wailed and beat a drum, the first raindrops fell...
...dangers faced by a few thousand Vermonters may not be panic-inducing, but the problems with Vermont Yankee are representative of the dangers of many nuclear power plants. Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has required nuclear plants to gauge their vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack. (NCR ran similar tests in the 1990s but the results were so embarrassingly bad that the tests were discontinued. Safety first.) Vermont Yankee is not alone in failing the mock attacks, but it does have the honor of having “the largest number of weaknesses of any reactor that has been...
Barry Bonds is currently under investigation for allegedly perjuring himself during grand jury testimony that took place in 2003. Bonds ran into trouble when he denied that he was aware that Victor Conte, the Willy Wonka of designer steroids, had provided him with anything more than supplements—“flax seed oil”—to bulk up. While cheating in baseball is rightly being scorned and receiving the attention it deserves, another brand of physician-prescribed cheating is all but ignored today. I’m talking about the cheating that takes place...
...done yesterday.” The Crimson had staked Cole to a slim 1-0 lead in the fifth inning, also courtesy of Meehan and Casey, who, with two hits apiece, accounted for four of Harvard’s six hits in the game. Until he ran into trouble in the sixth, it appeared as if Cole had all the support that he would need. With the loss, he finished with a record of 2-4 in a season that will likely compete for Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors.PRINCETON 9, HARVARD 3Princeton got to Crimson ace hurler Shawn...
...truth, my house was filthy. I didn't have the money to hire someone to clean it, and I was sure I didn't have time to clean it myself. But 10 months after my daughter's birth, as she progressed from immobile infant to roving, teething toddler, I ran out of excuses. The image of her actually confronting those unsanitary bunnies was enough to get me to Costco...