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...team will continue to benefit from an outstanding coaching staff, headed by Weiss, The Harvard Crimson's 1999-2000 Coach of the Year. Joining Weiss is an experienced team of assistant coaches which includes former Soviet National Coach Granit Taropin, and former Harvard All-Americans Dustin DeNunzio '99 and Andy McNerney '83. With a top notch coaching staff and the leadership of co-captains Fran Volpe and Picarsic, this team of seasoned veterans and promising freshman is poised to be a major force in the EIWA and NCAA...
Still, U.S.-based telescopes remain ahead on several fronts, including the detwinkling of starlight. The technology that does this is called adaptive optics, and it was originally developed in secrecy by the Department of Defense to help military snoops take sharp pictures of Soviet spy satellites. Largely declassified in the 1980s, it's now being adapted for major telescopes everywhere. The idea is straightforward: stars and galaxies twinkle and shimmer because turbulent pockets of air act as weak, light-distorting lenses (heat rising from a car's hood or an asphalt parking lot causes a similar effect). With adaptive optics...
...Schlesinger tells and the characters he recalls are vivid. After graduating from Harvard in 1938, Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich. He met Harold Laski but argued with the radical political scientist about his soft views on the Soviet Union. At the opening of a play called On the Frontier, the authors, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, sat directly in front of Schlesinger--Auden scribbling notes to Isherwood (which Isherwood could not read in the dark) and furiously smoking Camels, while John Maynard Keynes stared down impassively from...
...Gore wins, let us hope to be similarly charmed. Mr. Toad in the Oval Office. He can tell lies about how magnificent his administration is, in the way that Soviet blowhards used to say they invented the electric light and the designated hitter...
...Schlesinger tells and the characters he recalls are vivid. After graduating from Harvard in 1938, Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich. He met Harold Laski but argued with the radical political scientist about his soft views on the Soviet Union. At the opening of a play called "On the Frontier," the authors, Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden, sat directly in front of Schlesinger - Auden scribbling notes to Isherwood (which Isherwood could not read in the dark) and furiously smoking Camels, while John Maynard Keynes stared down impassively from...