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...astonishing images beaming down from the Hubble Space Telescope just got better. The first pictures from a new high-resolution camera, installed in March, arrived last week, and they are out of this world. This photo of a stellar nursery is a close-up of the Cone Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust some 2,500 light-years from Earth. From top to bottom, the celestial pillar shown here spans 2.5 light-years--3,000 times the size of our solar system. Stars are being born within the cloud as dense knots of gas collapse and flare with nuclear...
...Ryan Quillian’s junior year has not quite lived up to his sparkling 2001 Ivy Pitcher of the Year campaign. He is 2-4 with an ERA above 5.00, and Harvard beat him in the game Nyweide started en route to two-game sweep. Although he was stellar in his Lou Gehrig Division-clinching win over Cornell last weekend, he and the Tigers’ other starters are beatable. Solid, but certainly not invincible...
It’s not that hard to figure out why this film is going to work. If you are an oblivious film executive working with any kind of film, you get yourself a strong script, a talented director and a stellar cast, maybe inject a load of mind-blowing effects, and you have yourself a blockbuster. If you are trying to get a Marvel franchise off the ground, you might need a little something extra—and that little something is what will make Spider-Man succeed when other comics-based films have the unfortunate habit of landing...
...power of greed to erode the barriers of self-interest that are supposed to police capitalism. When bankers and research analysts work at the same firm, the fee-generating bankers put enormous pressure on the research analysts to issue favorable ratings. They know companies that receive less than stellar ratings from an analyst will not take their banking business to that analyst’s firm. The same problem plagues the accounting business, where Enron’s auditors at Anderson were also consultants to the company, a role that generated more in fees for Anderson than Enron?...
Last season’s team was carried by a new generation of standouts, including Rose, Morris and Balestracci. Harvard also benefited from stellar offensive and defensive line play, as well as an experienced secondary and linebacking corps...