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...past couple of decades, however, engineers armed with an array of high-tech materials and sophisticated ideas about angular momentum and moments of inertia have transformed the sport--and, most notably, the bowling ball. Nowadays the ball comes with a dizzying array of options, each imparting a different spin and roll. So where serious bowlers used to carry just one ball to the lanes, they now haul around half a dozen or more to be ready for whatever conditions they might encounter. "It's just like a golfer carrying 14 different clubs," says Bill Wasserberger, director...
These weren't setbacks. They were outright, no-spin defeats: thrilling, fleeting moments when democracy actually seemed to work, when the powerful were forced to concede the limits of their own clout and spin. Katrina was the turning point, the moment when the extent of cronyism, incompetence and sheer smugness in Washington reached a level that even the White House couldn't ignore. FEMA's Michael Brown, the American people surmised with their wide-open eyes, was not doing a "heck of a job." And a President who could say such a thing obviously had no clue about what...
...Ebenezer’s story at Worcester’s Foothills Theater in Massachusetts. Erica R. Lipez ’05 and Matt J. Corriel ’05, along with the theater’s marketing director, Johanna S. Karlin ’05, have put a new spin on Charles Dickens’s tale. “It’s a musical. What we choose to write scenes and songs about is different. We tried to keep it contemporary and interesting,” Corriel says. Lipez adds, “Everybody’s seen...
...Annie! If you pass out in Candia, you will be stripped of your comp director position so fast your head will spin more than it does now!” screamed Green. Lowrey hiccupped. “Geez. Caitlin, A. Haven, drag her to the side, please,” Green ordered. “Evan, Meghan, stop making out. Five, six, seven, eight...
...more enduring. "Reviving war memories keeps the nation united against Japan, and behind the party," says Beijing-based writer Liu Xiaobo. It's a risky strategy. Anti-Japan sentiment grew into rowdy street protests in Beijing and Shanghai in April, which the quickly government suppressed for fear they could spin out of control. But until China's leaders have some new pillar of legitimacy, Liu predicts, "the Japanese will stay devils in China...