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Besides having to contend with the tough competition that regional meets always bring, Harvard also had to face the harsh Pennsylvania weather--35-degree temperatures, snow mixed with sleet--as well as the icy and swampish condition of the course...
...that exercise is too boring. Steve Friedman, executive producer . of NBC's Today show, is unrepentantly indolent. "I'm one of those who believe people in New York should rent motorcycles to ride to their cars," he proclaims. "I see the joggers out there, in the rain, in the snow, and they all look so unhappy. If I have to do that to live to 80, I'd rather...
When Physicist C.P. Snow and Literary Critic F.R. Leavis squared off in their two-cultures debate some 25 years ago, it was already apparent that science was reshaping language and that humanism was trying to give itself laboratory airs. Leftists hardwired literature to Marx's social engineering, psychoanalysis cut the classics to fit the couch, and professors of English gave their essays titles like "The Entropy of the Imagination." Today words like process, systems, positive and negative are plugged into common discourse like so many microchips. The result can be toxic to the imagination and mother tongue...
Dawn broke with clarity. Even the encircling, snow-topped Sierra Madre was etched sharply in the distance against an azure sky. This was unusual for Mexico City, which is normally shrouded in a brown smog generated by the exhausts of some 3 million cars. But in just four earthshaking minutes, starting at 7:18 a.m. last Thursday, the day's auspicious beginning turned into a nightmarish disaster--and the bright skies only illuminated the extent of the tragedy...
...last time classes and daily business at Harvard were cancelled was on February 8-9, 1978, when the legednary blizzard of '78 dumped a record-high 29 inches of snow on Cambridge. The only other time in this century that Harvard shut down was September 21, 1938, two days before registration, when an unexpected hurricane ravaged the East Coast and killed 600 people