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...shorter-distance events, winning only three races under 500 yards. The Crimson won 5-out-of-16 races at the meet, besting the Big Green in points 230-65, but ultimately falling to an impressive Cornell squad 131-167. Two juniors led the charge for Harvard, as Sam Wollner and Geoff Rathgeber each won two races to thrust the Crimson into second place for the meet. After losing the 200-yard medley relay, the first event of the tournament, Harvard answered in the 1000-yard freestyle by boasting a 1-2-3 finish. Wollner led the Crimson pack with...
...Respect, a song that, released in the midst of the racial and sexual tumult of 1967, meant so much to so many people. It remains her signature anthem--and for good reason--though its overexposure means that her versions of Ray Charles' Drown in My Own Tears and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come and her emotionally delicate performance of Do Right Woman--Do Right Man are criminally overlooked...
Nothing worries parents more�than a sick infant--especially when nobody can figure out what's wrong. For Asher Gould's parents, the uncertainty lasted for the first three years of their son's life. Asher's older brother Sam, now 10, has always been pretty healthy. But a couple of months after he was born, Asher started having trouble feeding and was spotting his diapers with blood. The pediatrician decided he had an allergy to milk. Then, at 9 months, he couldn't crawl or sit up. The diagnosis this time was hypotonia, a vague term that basically means...
Dawkins is riding the crest of an atheist literary wave. In 2004, The End of Faith, a multipronged indictment by neuroscience grad student Sam Harris, was published (over 400,000 copies in print). Harris has written a 96-page follow-up, Letter to a Christian Nation, which is now No. 14 on the Times list. Last February, Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett produced Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, which has sold fewer copies but has helped usher the discussion into the public arena...
...Could Aardman go to Hollywood without going Hollywood? The answer comes in Flushed Away, supervised by Lord and directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. It's an entertaining comedy that vibrates with two kinds of tension: of antique artisans working in a new medium, and of English artists collaborating and colliding with American showmanship...