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...study's results suggest that using statins to treat the symptoms of inflammation, an oft-overlooked condition, may nearly halve people's risk of future heart attack, stroke and heart-related death...
...Crimson had won the last four meetings in Hanover and looked to snap a current four-game losing skid. The contest, which featured a total of only five shots on net, was a defensive struggle, but the Big Green (6-9, 4-2 Ivy) broke through on a penalty stroke late in the second half to defeat the Crimson (6-10, 2-4 Ivy), 1-0, on Dartmouth’s Senior Day. Most of the game was marked by midfield play, as the teams were deadlocked in a scoreless tie. However, with only 12 minutes remaining in the second...
...appeasement—not to mention the man for whom the Churchill Martini (six parts gin, hold the vermouth) was named.From the effortless grace of Audrey Hepburn to the manly vulnerability of Ernest Hemingway to the quiet power of cellist Pablo Casals—bent over his instrument mid-stroke, back to the camera—Karsh teases something elementary out of his subjects, something endlessly representative of their characters and lives, searching for the vulnerable, the revealing, the truth. Unfortunately, his work in landscapes or scenes of everyday lives does not approach the power of his portraits. While...
They only look as if they inhabit our galaxy. In truth, the men who would be President have been running for months in a parallel universe, a place where a Chief Executive changes laws by waving a hand and reorders society at the stroke of a pen. "When I am President," the candidates declare - and off they go into dreamspeak, describing tax codes down to the last decimal point and sketching health-care reforms far beyond the power of any single person to enact. In their imaginary, reassuring cosmos, America is always a mere 10 years - and one new President...
...changes pop culture. Even if he's a slop artist, and the inspiration is a movie about a woman with a clitoris in her throat. Such a one was Gerard Rocco Damiano, aka Jerry Gerard, who died this weekend in Fort Myers, Fla., at 80, from complications after a stroke. With Deep Throat and his second film, Devil in Miss Jones, Damiano launched the 1970s movie craze of porno chic...