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...father's life stories, lovingly encrusted with facts about aging and death (it turns out your soul doesn't weigh 21 grams after all, and your hair and nails do not keep growing postmortem) and quotations ("After 30, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death"--Emerson). The result is an edifying, wise, unclassifiable mixture of filial love and Oedipal rage. "I want him to live forever," Shields writes, "and I want him to die tomorrow...
...solid team effort to hand the Quakers an 89–79 defeat, marking the first time since the 1986–87 season that the Crimson has defeated the two perennial basketball powers in the same weekend. In Saturday’s contest, Lin finished with 21 points, six rebounds, four assists, three steals, and a block. It was the first time in the sophomore standout’s young career that he had tallied at least 20 points on back–to–back nights. He was 2-of-2 from behind...
...Grill reopened its doors in December after six months of renovations...
...Harvard constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 apologized for not properly citing another professor’s work in his 1985 book, “God Save This Honorable Court.” That same year, law professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. admitted to lifting six paragraphs in his book, “All Deliberate Speed,” from a Yale professor. And in Oct. 2006, The Crimson uncovered another incident of plagiarism in Ogletree’s book, citing a paragraph that contained wording from a 1996 work by a University of California...
...artificial glaciers, frozen pools of glacier run-off perched above the farmers' fields, which thaw just in time for the start of growing season in April - two months before water from the distant natural glaciers is expected to arrive. The slanted pools melt into irrigation channels over the next six weeks, watering crops for villages of roughly 500 families and, as a bonus, recharging the valley's natural springs...