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...unprotected sex with a girl named Peaches? With their star on the rise, these guys should not feel the need to beat themselves up or brood over past losses. In the end, they’re too hip for their own good and their sound is much sleeker and smoother than their image intimates. So hopefully next time they’ll be able to think of something fresher than just getting walloped for four minutes. —Edward F. Coleman
...Harvard’s special teams also came through on the defensive end, killing a key penalty in the last two minutes of the game to preserve the victory. “When your special teams are working, everything just seems to run a little bit smoother,” Brine said. —Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu...
...interesting protg-and-mentor team: Summers is the deep, intellectual economist who can be brusque if not arrogant. Geithner is a smoother, harder-to-read operator who gets along well with everyone. Of the two, Summers is the one to watch. He is expected to do for the economy what strong-minded and ambitious National Security Advisers like Henry Kissinger have done for foreign policy: plan it, set it and control...
...Harvard, where his controversial comments about women's aptitude for math and science were a reminder that he operates best when he is working behind the scenes. His job at NEC is designed to make him the captain of the team but avoid an unpleasant Senate confirmation hearing. Though smoother than Summers in style, Geithner will have to explain to the Senate Banking Committee just exactly what he was doing last year while all those Manhattan investment banks came unglued...
...leather piano bench, Harrell opened the adagio-moderato movement of Sir Edward Elgar’s “Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85” with a declamatory broken chord. Harrell—who made his BSO debut in November 1978—favored a smoother, lighter touch to the opening theme, as opposed to the heavily sustained passion of English cellist Jacqueline Du Pré’s definitive 1965 recording of the concerto with the London Symphony...