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...went to school at the Rhode Island School of Design. What did you major in? I was a film major with a concentration in animation...
...pleasure lies in the piquancy of the writer-state pairings. Some are more obvious--heavy hitter Jonathan Franzen handles New York. Some are less so--imagine the editors' relief when they remembered that Jhumpa Lahiri hails from tiny Rhode Island (which, as she points out, is not an island!). There's something about their home state that puts writers in confessional moods. Picture Anthony Bourdain lighting M-80s ("It's a quarter stick a dynamite!!") as a j.d. in Jersey or a teenage Joshua Ferris cruising the canals of Florida with Jimmy Buffett (at the time he didn't know...
...they are called in Chinese - into orbit. The spacecraft, a modified version of the Russian Soyuz vessel, will carry a Russian and a Chinese-designed space suit. "This is big," says Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. "It's not easy to design a space suit that's flexible and has life support...
...beautiful game often cruelly flatters to deceive. In a sport in which even the slightest error becomes terrifically magnified, a team that shows the spirit and offensive prowess to truly knock back its opponent can often be punished for that very same tenacity.At the University of Rhode Island (URI) Soccer Complex last night, the Harvard men’s soccer team (2-2) was that squad.Ninety-one minutes of attacking verve—replete with 65-percent possession and 14 total shots—came undone in the second minute of the extra period when URI substitute forward Erkko Puranen...
...their former coach in the opening game of the season was not how the Harvard men’s soccer team envisioned starting the year. But after back-to-back wins, the Crimson will be feeling much better going into this afternoon’s match-up against Rhode Island. Harvard (2-1-0, 0-0 Ivy) takes on the Rams (2-2-0) at 5 p.m. in Kingston, R.I., hoping to continue building momentum before Ivy League play begins. The last two meetings between the teams have been close, with last year’s game providing riveting action...