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Elkies is a man who seeks to move effortlessly between two spheres. While he has been known to teach math’s toughest first-year course, Mathematics 55, he also composes breathtakingly beautiful and complex music. This is a gift he does not take lightly; he pursues music with a vigor equal to that of his academic career. This dedication has seen many of his compositions performed by leading professional music groups in the area within the past several years...
...days of liberty vs. security: How far do we want our protectors to go in our name? There's no simple answer. Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis, of the lame sitcom Daddio, with surprising cocksure charisma), runs the elite strike-team unit in one of L.A.'s. toughest precincts. But the unit is really a gang itself--corrupt, racist and bullying (even to other cops) and running its own testosterone-charged...
Dartmouth and Penn—not 2001 Ivy cellar team Princeton—were supposed to be Harvard’s toughest challenge, yet the Tigers were the team that dealt Harvard its only Ivy loss. In that game, the Crimson turned a nine-point halftime deficit into a four-point lead late in the game, but couldn’t win it. Embarressingly, the team was outrebounded 43-29 by the Tigers...
...were capable of making such a meal myself, it would have taken me all day to shop, chop and cook. As it was, my toughest task was poking open the plastic pouches. In fact, my big complaint has little to do with the sites. After eating so well, I can't imagine going back to my real life of stand-up meals and leftovers. Now I long for filet mignon...
...Netherlands ought to be one of the toughest places in Europe for the far right to get a toehold. Prosperous and with low unemployment, tolerant and proudly multicultural, the country has long been a place where the politicians fine-tune consensus in long, well-behaved coalition talks. But into that idyll last week crashed Pim Fortuyn, 54, who rode an unapologetically anti-immigration platform to a substantial victory in local elections in Rotterdam, the country's second city, where many of the country's 800,000 Muslims live. His local party, Livable Rotterdam, won 17 out of the 45 seats...