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...watched the last half-inning of last week’s American League Championship Series in my common room, with what may have been the worst-informed baseball audience on the eastern seaboard. Periodically, someone would ask which team had scored the last point; peering intently at the television, one of my roommates said, “Wait—there are Asian baseball players?” When the game ended, we threw open the windows and listened to the shouts echoing across the Winthrop courtyard. “Whoo,” we said, perfunctorily...
...blackouts plaguing China are a rude awakening for those who consider the brightly lit skylines of the country's eastern seaboard a symbol of national progress and prosperity. "China has fallen in love with electricity," says Christopher Choa, an architect who heads the Shanghai branch of American firm HLW. "Blazing lighting and abundantly available power are considered almost sensual experiences, more than just metaphors for modernity." But the affection for dazzling lights has not translated into a commensurate investment in energy infrastructure, notwithstanding China's showpiece $25 billion Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project. In 1993, amid...
...there's one thing harder than being from Philadelphia--the Eastern seaboard's perennial underdog--it's being from Baltimore, chronic runner-up even to Philly. But every so often, synergy works. The scrappy cities and a scrappy horse came together last week for a brilliant flash-paper moment in which Smarty Jones, a too-small Thoroughbred from an ordinary farm, roared to an 11.5-length win in the Preakness Stakes, the widest Preakness win ever and one that puts horse racing two-thirds of the way to its first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. Coming on the hooves...
Bathroom Humor, by James Henderson, directed by Dave Poole, is about three Wal-Mart employees. Bertrand (Andy Riel), by dint of becoming the fastest checkout clerk on the Eastern seaboard, has been given the honor of making an inspirational speech, but before his speech he has gotten drunk and cloistered himself in the bathroom to vomit. He is encouraged by his co-worker Gary Girard (Kevin LaVelle) and tormented by the diabolical Stuart Steadfast (Greg Luzitano), who wants to steal his glory. Stuart’s momentary presence is the best part of this sequence; his cruel, demonic laughter...
...truly formidable academic hoax stalks the eastern seaboard. Its name sours on the lips of every true devotee of veritas. (We need no artificial lux for intellectual trail-blazing under Cambridge’s bright daytime skies; and unlike Yalies, we actually have lives once the sun goes down, and visits to the local police station don’t count.) But as pathetic as Eli is, he is an insidious pest. The task of eliminating the malformed menace from New Haven is a Herculean one, far beyond the reach of any one class or team. Harvard?...