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Concomitant with the wave of nostalgia that followed Sept. 11, 2001 was a wave of escapism, manifest in the celebrity culture of Bonnie Fuller’s weekly feature, “Stars??They’re Just like US!” showing Ben Affleck pumping gas and Kate Hudson at supermarket. Within a month of Britney’s Super Bowl commercial, the seeds were sown for our collective consumption of her downward spiral. “The genius of Bonnie Fuller’s new approach was that almost any picture of a celebrity doing...
...ironic bunch. When I visited Mumbai, India, this June, the air was thick with humidity and heavy monsoon rains flooded the crowded streets. Yet even in my grandparents’ flat in the upscale suburb of Bandra—home to Bollywood’s glamorous film stars??low water pressure in the public pipeline meant that the plumbing system worked only two or three hours a day, often in the middle of the night. My grandparents have made do for years by adapting their cooking habits and keeping a bucket of water handy for washing...
...getting boards. Until we can all decide to click at the same time, we’re going to have this rebounding problem for the rest of the season.” Harvard’s defense—the lingering question mark on a team filled with offensive stars??was excellent at times and forgettable at others, as Wrice sliced her way to 16 points on 7-of-16 shooting from the floor. The athletic trio of Wrice, forward Baendu Lowenthal and Stephanie Geehan combined for 43 of Fairfield’s 63 points...
...could provide clues to the ultimate fate of the universe. And last week, a team led by Harvard astronomers announced they had seen such shrapnel. What the team observed was a stellar explosion, called a supernova, that was caused by the merger and collision of two white dwarf stars??the shriveled-up remnants of burnt-out stars. Typically, these gigantic explosions are thought to involve only one white dwarf, and astronomers have inferred from previous studies of white dwarf supernovae that the rate of expansion of the universe is accelerating. “This one might...
...Recruiting success is nothing new to Amaker. He constantly brought in high-ranking high school ballers to Michigan—his 2004 class contained three four-star prospects. But it’s a new phenomenon in Cambridge. In the past six classes, only two players had stars??former captain Jim Goffredo ’07 and junior guard Drew Housman were each two-star prospects.Amaker’s pitch to high schoolers is changing that. In addition to the four committed players, two-star forward prospects Dario Hunt of Goldsboro, NC and Andrew Van Nest...