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...common among users and former users of other hallucinogenic drugs. Grinspoon said it was refreshing to have confirmation within the scientific community of peyote’s psychological benevolence. “I think [peyote] helps the ritual [of the Church], and the afterglow helps people sustain their abstinence [from alcohol],” Grinspoon said...
Fresh off a 6-2 romp over Dartmouth last Saturday, the Harvard men’s hockey team will look to sustain its momentum in a pair of tough ECAC road games this weekend. The Crimson hopes to display the same intensity it had late in the Big Green game, a focus that was lacking in a 4-3 exhibition loss to McGill a week earlier. “We just didn’t play hard [against McGill], and I think that’s why they beat us,” said junior defenseman Dylan Reese...
...title. At the beginning of the season when everyone was healthy we were looking to crack the top three or four of the Ivy League,” Mullen said. “However, our team just isn’t deep enough right now to be able to sustain the loss of three of our top guys. The Ivy League was really tough this year.” The Crimson’s will now shift its focus to NCAA Regionals in an attempt to salvage the season. —Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached...
...down the escalator, the next he’s prancing through an elevator hallway, culminating in a surreal Peter Pan-like flight through the air in the final minute of the video. As absurd as it may be, if there is one human being who could actually fly and sustain acrobatic aerials through the air, it would be Christopher Walken. —Jessica C. Coggins2. ThrillerMichael JacksonAccording to iTunes statistics, “Thriller” is its second most downloaded video. I think this fact illustrates why the world needs Pop Screen. Because we are the only thing...
...pocket.” In this and other poems, Robinson’s syntax is the best part of her style. The pacing of her language is exquisite. Lines that are formal and decorously slow contrast with punctuation-less lines that rush into one another. Robinson can sustain the tension of a phrase over several lines, even through self-interruption. In “From this miserable mutineer a stutter, / for when we are reading Dostoevsky in caves,” the narrator starts to grandly exclaim “My—” but breaks it with...