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Behind Kelly on the field stands the man with perhaps the heaviest burden of all. Sophomore goalkeeper Mike Meagher must fill the gaping hole left by Jordan Dupuis '99. Dupuis was stellar last season and set the school record for career saves...
...midfield is led by senior Armando Petruccelli. Perhaps the team's strongest force on the field, Petruccelli is a legitimate All-America candidate whose tenacity and knowledge form a deadly combination for opponents. He is looking to improve further upon a stellar season last year that saw him tally seven goals and three assists, leading the Crimson with 17 points...
...SETI effort. Needing just three months and $20,000, his team built a stereo-size detector designed to look over the shoulder of Harvard's 61-in. telescope as it conducts regular studies of starlight. While stars typically pulsate comparatively slowly, Horowitz's device is calibrated to spot intense stellar flare-ups lasting only a few billionths of a second. Such "events," he figures, would probably be powerful bursts of artificial light aimed at us from an inhabited planet orbiting that star. In short, an interstellar hello...
...cannot process the sounds of language fast enough to comprehend normal speech. Nicole spent six weeks of intense game playing at a speech clinic in New Jersey, emerging "like a different child," Donna Davis says. Today the ebullient second-grader chatters away with classmates, gets good grades and has stellar reading skills. As Nicole puts it, "I like to write stories and poems, read books and play with my friends...
...1970s, many psychiatrists still called homosexuality a mental illness. In one entirely routine case, the Supreme Court refused in 1978 to overturn the prison sentence of a man convicted solely of having sex with another consenting man. A year before, it had let stand the firing of a stellar Tacoma, Wash., teacher who made the mistake of telling the truth when his principal asked if he was homosexual. No real national gay organization existed, and Vice President Walter Mondale haughtily left a 1977 speech after someone asked him when the Carter Administration would speak in favor of gay equality...