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...half an hour and hit the ocean? Then it hit me; I live in Silicon Valley. Valley: An elongated depression between mountain ranges. I can’t hit the beach without driving through the mountains. Yet, despite a decade and a half of living in California, I somehow managed to forget that all of my trips to the beach included a twisty trip through the mountains...
...didn’t realize what a wart of a town Middlebury was until I searched it using Google Earth yesterday and discovered a pixelated blur. Sure, it only takes me 20 minutes to jog across town, and, of course, everyone here speaks in proverbs, but somehow I never quite fused the connection...
Sahil K. Mahtani ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Winthrop House. He somehow enjoys punishing himself...
That didn't stop people from wondering whether a space walk still might have been wise, since if the crew could somehow have determined that the tiles were compromised, they might at least have hightailed it to the International Space Station--which the shuttles routinely visit anyway--and awaited a lift home aboard another shuttle or a Russian vehicle. But that possibility was foreclosed, since crews must rigorously train for a space-station docking and must carry aboard an adapter collar to make the linkup possible. Neither of those conditions was met on Columbia...
...good thing that John Roberts has been universally described as decent, funny, civil and fair, since he may be joining a court with a long history of pugilists, ideologues and misanthropes who have somehow made it past the U.S. Senate. Justice James Clark McReynolds, who served until 1941, was, in the words of historian David Garrow, a "drooling anti-Semite" who refused to speak with fellow Justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo or have his picture taken with them. Chief Justice Fred Moore Vinson was a glorified drinking buddy of President Harry Truman's whose sudden death was hailed...