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Blink, and you would have missed it. Early Saturday morning on the Charles River, the Harvard men’s lightweight crew team finished .05 seconds??less time than the blink of an eye—behind Dartmouth to lose the Biglin Bowl for the second time in three years. Despite the varsity eight’s close loss, the team performed strongly as a whole, winning three of the day’s five races. Additionally, the varsity eight, novice eight, and second novice eight all handily defeated MIT, as the Engineers finished at a distant third...
...recent NCAA basketball championship game featured 270 seconds of beer commercials—breaching the self-imposed limit of 120 seconds??and has now forced the moral compasses of higher education to intercede...
...newspaper, we’ve grown accustomed to jumping from one activity to the next without giving anyone our undivided attention and care. According to a report by the BBC, “the addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds??the same as a goldfish.” It’s difficult for even the putative best and brightest to concentrate on the moment at hand with midterms, rehearsals and deadlines vying for their attention, and an iPhone full of distractions competing for what’s left...
...While on the bus, jurors were not allowed to discuss the case as locations—including the sidewalk outside Pizza Ring, where Pring-Wilson stabbed Colono five times in 70 seconds??were pointed out to them by the day’s tour guides, the lawyers for the two sides...
...plans for Boston to secede from the union in a fit of “dirty water” driven lunacy? I took a closer look at the Herald’s front page and my mouth swung open in horror. I stood paralyzed in shock for fully thirty seconds??stiller than Mitt Romney when he’s ambushing varmints on the hunt. A paparazzi-snapped candid of a Bay State hero’s dastardly betrayal stared me in the face. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had been photographed mid-stride, smugly bedecked in a Yankees...