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...maybe down more"). But there was none of the wildness usually associated with offspring of rich, flamboyant families. Instead we find a likable boy with a cool head and an IQ of 119 who was more interested in good times than good grades. He was a competent sailor, played some football and swam competitively until stomach trouble, fevers and a puzzling weight loss curtailed his activities...
...photocollage, brilliantly deployed -- in combination with sharp, eye-rattling typographic forms -- in book jackets, handbills and movie posters. Anton Lavinsky's 1926 poster for Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, which grabs the eye with the staring authority of those two black cannon muzzles framing the whispering, mutinous sailor, is a classic of the genre...
...Monday marks the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' landing in the West Indies, and recent debates over the nature of that "discovery" promise to make it the most controversial Columbus Day yet. In ethnically and racially diverse Cambridge, almost everybody seems to have a different take on the Italian sailor and the era of colonization he initiated...
Wearing a jaunty sailor's cap and hamming it up admirably, Glashow handed out the Ig Nobel prizes to the esteemed recipients...
Winning: Olympic bronze medals went to three Harvard graduates: sailor JULIA L. TROTMAN '88, backstroke swimmer DAVID C. BERKHOFF '89 and rower ANNA B. SEATON '86. Nineteen Harvard students and alumni participated in the Games, which were held in Barcelona...