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...skating hotspots: Nichols and Charnoski point out the Government Center T Station and one disused swimming pool close to Harvard—whose exact location they refuse to reveal so as not to attract attention to the spot—as popular places for skaters to test out their skills.By offering teenagers the opportunity to invent new tricks, the public spaces gave a lot to skateboarding, but the reverse is also true. Skaters helped give life to places that previously had none, and which, without skating, may never really have served any purpose.“There are many plazas...
...year stroking the varsity eight—an unprecedented feat in the lightweight program.In the academic arena, it’s more of the same. This time last year, she was not able to compete at the Head of the Charles. But it was not injury, fatigue, or a test that precluded her involvement. She was 4000 miles away, in Ethiopia, excavating at the site of the “Lucy” skeleton—the key discovery in the search for the “missing link.”After she returned from her semester abroad...
...added.“It is a much bigger squad,” Bucke said. “There’s a great team spirit, and the seniors especially have been really welcoming.”The Head of the Charles this weekend will be the first test for the new members of the varsity racing alongside its veterans. With the first freshman boat returning in its entirety as a championship eight entry, and several other championship and club eights competing, expectations may be building among followers of the Crimson.“We’re definitely looking...
Coleman: I would argue that voters expect temperament to matter more now. And that you could trace back to the compressed timelines for decisions now and look at the nuclear age, the push-button age ... There is a reason now that the whole 3 a.m. phone-call test resonates...
...semester’s grades may not be out just yet, but for our nation’s public schools, report cards are looking somewhat dismal. This year, according to newly released state-by-state data, the number of schools failing to reach testing targets under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was far greater than in any other year. Indeed, children are getting left behind, but not because they’re slow. It’s because the NCLB school bus is trying to go 70 miles per hour in the suburbs. The original NCLB legislation had the lofty...