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...temperature Physics. Harris estimates that approximately one-third of the experimental physics at Harvard is supercool. Because of such extreme coolness (Harris’ experiment runs at .3 degrees above absolute zero), the research hinges on first-rate apparatus. About two-thirds of the equipment is made from scratch, and a substantial fraction is made in-house at the shop next door by Stanley Cotreau. Harris described Cotreau as, “one of the few people at Harvard who is the absolute master of his domain.”Cotreau has been directing the shop since...
...televisions. "They're very, very somber," the adviser said. Before Bush's speech at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., last Wednesday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters aboard Air Force One that Bush would declare the war was progressing "ahead of schedule." But Bush decided to scratch that sentence from his speech, eliciting private criticism from an Administration official, a rarity in Bush's Washington. "It made it sound like we were less optimistic than we had been," the official said. "It looks like we're succumbing to the doom and gloom, which...
Prior to yesterday, the 6’2 senior righthander had made a career as a spare part on Harvard’s pitching staff. That’s all he was meant to be again yesterday, too, as shoulder soreness made freshman hurler Matt Brunnig a late scratch from this weekend’s rotation and caused Walsh to opt for a patchwork of Crimson relievers to replace him in yesterday’s nightcap at Columbia...
...premise of Dr. Magic, written by Joyce Carol Oates with music by composer Carson P. Cooman ’04, derives directly from the hero of the title, a crafty magician. Dr. Magic invites a couple to the stage as volunteers and his interaction and experimentation on them scratch the seemingly ideal surface of their lives together...
...built that show from scratch, and it became really, really nasty. When they realized that they couldn’t win, they basically threw money at us to make us look bad,” Lydon says...