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...who’s left? After the Crimson’s 39-14 dismantling of the Tigers, and the Quakers’ 17-7 triumph in the always-inviting dump that is New Haven, Harvard and Penn remain the league’s sole undefeated teams and will go through the final month of the season as the sole contenders for an Ivy championship—again...
...those reasons might be that, as the sole species--as far as we know--capable of contemplating its own death, we needed something larger than ourselves to make that knowledge tolerable. "Anticipation of our own demise is the price we pay for a highly developed frontal lobe," says Persinger. "In many ways, [a God experience is] a brilliant adaptation. It's a built-in pacifier...
Right now, the Tigers sit atop the Ivy League with the Quakers. Penn held sole possession of the top spot until this weekend. Following its heartbreaking loss to the Crimson, Brown—now out of the current Ivy picture with two losses—has a much different outlook from Harvard’s about the conference...
DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, Calif. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training--and famously brilliant at it nonetheless--Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours, but his strap-it-on-and-go approach served him less well in the lunar program, when NASA preferred more by-the-book pilots. He never got a trip to the moon...
Princeton’s only loss of the season came last weekend after Colgate launched a furious second-half comeback to erase a double-digit deficit before holding on for victory. Brown’s sole defeat came at the hands of Harvard, which dug out of a 21-point second-half hole...