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They scored 1609.5 points, captured 11 out of 21 first-place finishes, and claimed their fourth Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving title in a row. They swam in three days of grueling competition for six hours a day. And somehow they made it look easy...
...some point Harvard got tired of playing catch. It now boasts seven of the last eight championship titles and this weekend's victory makes it four in a row...
Whites joined blacks outside the courthouse to applaud the verdict. Some onlookers shouted "Bye-bye!" and "Rot in hell!" as King was led off to death row. "I hate to say people were happy, but they were," says Jasper Chamber of Commerce president Diane Domenech, who is white. "I feel like we stood together, black and white, and everyone's just as happy as the next one at what happened...
...race skews any discussion of capital punishment in America. Arguments against the death penalty focus on the disproportionate number of blacks on death row. What does Jasper give us? Something astonishing: the spectacle of a vicious white sent to death row--for killing a black man. Hence the high-fives among blacks outside the courthouse. The natural jubilation is philosophically inconsistent, of course. It is difficult to argue that whites should be executed but blacks should not. What celebrating blacks really mean is something simpler: it's about time...
...Spot The Sniffler by a train toilet paper following a set of beet-red nostrils. In lecture, The Sniffler blows, snorts and snots, infecting a four-row radius. Rest, medication, hydration--these words mean nothing to The Sniffler whose misery (read: identity) depends on a perpetual state of illness. FM advice to The Sniffler: Arithromycin...