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...named an alternate. Grosslight said that he is glad that he went through the process and would try out again if asked next season. “A lot of people thought this was ridiculous, even humiliating and unacademic,” he said. “People can tell you what they think is good and bad for you, but ultimately it’s my life.” After Grosslight took the cube root of 250,047 with only a moment’s hesitation (63), he said that while his math tricks may not help...
...phone calls.Once someone called to find out how to say “74” in Latin, Lake said.“Someone has some random Latin question, and they figure, ‘I’ll just call Harvard, and some nerd at a desk will tell me what I want to do,’” Schafer said. Christopher P. Jones, a Classics professor, said he does not believe that the department should give out translations gratis.“My belief on the whole is we’re not a service...
...voting for the candidate with whom they would most like to “have a beer.” But the magical quality of Obama’s oratory can hardly be sidelined to that of a happy hour playmate. Any diligent junior high civics student can tell you that the executive is constitutionally the weakest branch of government. But a rhetorically adept president can leverage public support to drive through groundbreaking bills that are too risky for individual legislators to try and pass on their own. In this respect, an Obama presidency might better mirror Lyndon Johnson?...
...goes on an adventure tour with the thought that he won't make it back alive. The whole point is to push the envelope and live to tell the tale. It's unclear what Markus Groh thought when he signed up for a late February dive that could put him face-to-face with killer sharks spanning 18 feet in length - without a cage to separate him from the man-eaters. He surely didn't expect to end up dead. But the 49-year-old attorney from Austria, died on Feb. 24 after being bitten in the leg while swimming...
...only 625,000 residents, and they aren't wrestling with most of the problems that are dominating the campaign. Vermont doesn't have many immigrants; it ranks last in the nation in foreclosures; it's consistently rated the healthiest state. But if the politics of Vermont doesn't tell us much about the politics of America, it is still quirky and intriguing...