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...know how the monk feels, because I have on my desk the would-be successor to the book. It's called the Sony Reader, and it's designed to do for the book what the iPod did for music: that is, usher it, skipping gaily, into the paradise of portable digital consumption. The Reader is a sleek, soigné little object--you can almost sense it trying to look literary, as though it should come with a decanter of sherry as a USB peripheral. Although it's slightly smaller and thinner than a trade paperback, one Sony Reader can hold about...
...January of last year, Frank Haggerty ’68 stepped down from his position as director of the Harvard Track and Field team, a job he had held for the previous 24 years.It didn’t take long to usher in the new, though, and only ten days later, Jason Saretsky, an associate head track coach at Iona College, was named as Haggerty’s replacement.Having graduated from Columbia in 1999, Saretsky brought youthful vigor to the program as well as some middle-distance and distance expertise. In his last four years at Iona, he helped coach...
...track while growing up in Memphis, and only decided that he wanted to learn to dance during his junior year of high school. “I started out just watching music videos,” he says. “Anything I could look at—Usher, Ginuwine, Michael Jackson—because I didn’t know how to dance. And a lot of people can just be fine with that, but for me, I wanted to know something.”Intending to continue running track at Harvard, Oladehin auditioned for the Freshman Talent Show...
...Valenti, who died Thursday at 85 from complications of a stroke, seemed a good fit for that antique era. A hardscrabble Texas kid who at 14 had worked as "an usher in a second-run theater in Houston called the Iris," he flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington...
...about 400 meters, the Crimson had made up the few seats it had lost and drew level with the Bears before pulling ahead in the third 500 to usher in a five-second win of 6:31.4 to Brown?...