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...anyone possibly hear a poem over the loudspeakers?” he said. “So I decided to compose a villanelle. Just repeat repeat repeat.” In the second half-hour, Heaney read several yet to be published poems, inspired by his translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid. He closed the afternoon with a reading of ‘Postscript,’ from his volume ‘The Spirit Level,’ published in 1996. Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland, a place which continues...
...Singlehanded National Championship.Like in the weekend’s other regattas, weather was a factor in Connecticut—but this time a positive one. Since Watson is smaller than most other competitors, the light winds gave her an advantage in speed. Having ended Saturday in sixth place, Watson started strong on Sunday, placing fourth, second, and third in the first three races of the day. Events took a turn for the dramatic, however, when Watson struggled in her next three races—finishing sixth, ninth, and 16th, respectively. Qualification for Nationals was on the line in the regatta?...
...with a time of 25:43.89. Coming in at 25:53.64, captain Chas Gillespie took second. Junior Vito Cannavo and rookies Ben Enowitz and Dan Stiles rounded out the lineup of Crimson scorers. Enowitz finished 26:33.04 to take the overall fifth spot, while Cannavo and Stiles tallied sixth-place 26:37.95 and seventh-best 26:40.57 times, respectively. The times of Enowitz, Cannavo, and Stiles were just seconds off each other and just seconds off the times of the Bulldogs top two finishers. According to Saretsky, the strategy all along was to have Harvard’s fourth...
...start at quarterback. But that luxury—and that burden—falls on head coach Tim Murphy, who has to figure out what to do with the talent he has returning for the 2008 season. So how to make the choice between a guy that stands sixth in passing yards and ninth in total offense in Harvard history (Liam O’Hagan) and a guy that finished as the top quarterback in the Ivy League last season (Chris Pizzotti)? For Murphy, it was a no-brainer: go with Pizzotti. A First Team All-Ivy member...
...adult size. As a matter of fact, we are born equipped with most of the neurons our brain will ever have - and that's fewer than we have in utero. Humans achieve their maximum brain-cell density between the third and sixth month of gestation - the culmination of an explosive period of prenatal neural growth. During the final months before birth, our brains undergo a dramatic pruning in which unnecessary brain cells are eliminated. Many neuroscientists now believe that autism is the result of insufficient or abnormal prenatal pruning...