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More than most Harvard squads, the water polo team generally seems somewhat ill-suited to individual accolades. The team prides itself on posing a balanced offensive threat—a game in which five or six different players find the back of the net is far more satisfying than one in which one player busts out for a handful of goals...
While it has become somewhat of a cliché in the sports world to say that a given team is “returning everybody,” that statement can very nearly be applied in a literal sense to the Engineers...
DIED. SIR JOHN PLUMB, 90, colorful British historian and oenophile; in Cambridge, England. A working-class boy who fell in love with history and became a prolific author of popular books on the Renaissance and the British monarchy, he also produced more scholarly works. He was considered the resident, somewhat cantankerous genius of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he spent his entire academic career...
...will be instructive to see whether the Taliban notices. The regime appears to be somewhat surprised-and more than a little cocky-to find itself still standing after a month of war with America. U.S. officials believe that the Taliban has exploited the slackening of support among some U.S. allies to dissuade defectors and lure new recruits. "They feel they have the means to actually win this," says a U.S. diplomat in Pakistan. A Time reporter who spent three days in Kandahar last week interviewing key Taliban commanders and officials, including Tayeb Agha, spokesman for the supreme leader Mullah Mohammed...
...theoretical underpinnings of the Reclamation Artists’ work is somewhat esoteric and hard to grasp, but in essence much of their work—including “Nest!”—seems to consist of attempts to make something out of nothing. Or, more precisely, to convert a formerly vacuous physical topos into an organic component of a superimposed piece of art. In particular, Reclamation Artists are concerned with neglected urban landscapes, and have often endeavored to add an aesthetically pleasing touch to otherwise barren and unappealing scenery...