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...Crimson, hobbled by injuries and plagued by turnovers, refused to relent, however, and the young Harvard team did show a glimpse of the level it had played at before being hit with a string of injuries to some key players...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Banged-up Crimson Run into Banghart | 3/8/2000 | See Source »

...string of successes this year might be attributed to the marked development of the group in recent years, Stage Manager Royd Chung '01 said...

Author: By Christine M. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Callbacks Make Finals in National Contest | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style, a collection of synthesizer arrangements of pieces by classical greats ranging from Vivaldi to Satie, is a case in point. When Orbit, Madonna's producer, sticks close to the composers' arrangements and instrumentation, as he does on Barber's "Adagio for Strings," the songs don't profit from the synthesizer's virtues and still suffer its vices. "Adagio" sounds like the work of a very tired string orchestra...

Author: By Daniel J. Luskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Album Review: William Orbit, Pieces in a Modern Style | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...Bridget?) shows that Bridget is less high-strung than Ally McBeal, the inevitable object of comparison. And some genuinely hilarious moments pepper the novel: going to Mark Darcy's house and finding a "lithe oriental boy, stark naked, smiling weirdly, and holding out two wooden balls on a string and a baby rabbit...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keeping up with the Jones | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...memorizing the country code, city code and phone number for someone outside the U.S. as one string of digits and see how difficult it is. Breaking unwieldy pieces of information into smaller pieces makes them easier to remember. The process is called "chunking," and that's why we can remember Social Security and telephone numbers. Large unbroken sets of numbers, such as driver's licenses, can be artificially divided into chunks for easier recall. "Clustering" is another effective technique. Seven, according to experts, is the magic number for short-term, or working, memory. That's roughly how many things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speak, Memory | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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