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...second varsity boat was also unlucky, after whittling down an initial Bulldog lead to move into the front with one mile to go. The late run would fall short when the boat was forced to stop briefly after one oarsman caught a crab in the last thousand meters, giving Yale a chance to push past the Crimson for an 18-second victory...
...neutral pH, tasted pleasantly sweet against the soft cheese. With my tagliatelle with ragout, I drank a medium-carbonated, high-calcium Italian water. We also had one water that flowed through volcanic rock (Hawaiian Springs), two from melted glaciers (Hawaii's Kona Deep and Canada's unpleasantly sour 10 Thousand BC) and water freshly bottled from Tasmanian rain (Tasmanian Rain). To my surprise, the waters did taste different. Or felt different. Buying an occasional bottle of water no longer seemed insane. "If you're sitting down with nice food, why not spend $3 on a nice bottle of water...
...Google "this is a nation of laws," and you'll find a thousand online Cassandras warning that our failure to prosecute illegals is an invitation to anarchy. They are right about the U.S. being a nation of laws. But our legal system is not a house of cards, one flick away from collapse. U.S. jurisprudence has in fact always been a series of hedged bets, weighing the potential harm of a violation against the costs of enforcement. That's why people get arrested for assault but not for jaywalking. It's time to think seriously about exactly where...
...Quad Houses’ potential move across the Charles is the most dramatic aspect of a short- and long-term transformation of the College’s residential system that could be the biggest in years. By the time that a thousand undergraduates are traversing the Weeks Footbridge on their way home, mixed-gender housing may be common, some upperclassmen might be living in the Yard, and the River Houses could be dramatically renovated...
...busy traveling around the globe (with trips to Oslo, Berlin, and Kyoto on the schedule for this summer) discussing the minutiae of languages that haven’t been spoken in over four thousand years...