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...Robert Altman has a youthful heart. Literally. While accepting an honorary Oscar, the 81-year-old director disclosed that he had had a heart transplant a decade ago, and received the organ of a woman in her 30s. Altman said he figured that gave him 40 more years in Hollywood. Someone should break it to the guy that in this town, a woman in her 40s is already over the hill...
...sophomore Pat Quinn combined to finish in 1:27.67—setting a new team and meet record. The Crimson continued to dominate, winning the next three events. Freshman Eric Lynch snagged first in the 1000-yard freestyle, finishing only 0.03 seconds ahead of Princeton’s Robert Griest. Sophomore Sam Wollner also finished fifth. “There’s just one gear for [Lynch] when he swims, and it’s not often that he runs people down,” Cromwell said. “He just kept chipping away the whole race...
Harvard adopted its nondiscrimination policy in 1979 and enforced it until 2002, when then-Dean Robert C. Clark, under heavy Pentagon pressure, agreed to grant military recruiters an exemption. Kagan again barred military recruiters in late 2004, but relented less than a year later...
...wave of immigrants, teeming west from the plains and north from Mexico, collided in a movie dream gone sour. Published to little note, it slowly found important devotees. Charles Bukowski, L.A.'s signature outlaw author, used to channel the book's hero, shouting "I am Bandini, Arturo Bandini!" Screenwriter Robert Towne fell in love with the book when researching his script for Chinatown, also set in the '30s. Now, a generation later, he has made an elegiac movie of Ask the Dust...
...months, we crisscrossed the country, interviewing sleep experts, getting tested in sleep labs and even flying a 747 simulator after being awake for 30 hours. I got my first clue that I might be more sleep deprived than I thought in a lab run by Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School...