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...various personnel setbacks, both squads arrived to find yet another surprise at the course in a season filled with strange circumstances. Just two weeks after NCAA Regionals at Franklin Park were reduced to a mudbath, Harvard found the New York terrain to be unrecognizable due to construction. The signature set of hills that make Van Cortlandt Park so challenging was roped...
About 100 yards from the sea of Crimson, members of Yale’s 12 colleges and various clubs had their own tailgate, incidentally located near the only source of music, a large set of speakers blasting everything from Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” to Lil Jon’s “Shots...
...ordination between the state and central intelligence agencies, devoted more men and equipment to security services and put intense diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to crack down on LeT and other jihadist groups. But there has been little discussion of how pervasive, low-level corruption can compromise national security. The various brokers and middlemen who helped Sabahuddin never knew he was involved with a jihadist group; he appeared to be simply another young man living in the gray margins of Indian society, paying a little here and there to grease the wheels of an enormous but inefficient bureaucracy and police force...
Francisco’s material often lampoons contemporary movies, music—he can produce compelling “techno” using only his voice—and culture. His ability to impersonate famous personalities, various ethnic accents, and characters from films has primarily contributed to the success of his satire. According to Francisco, developing this talent stems from self-assurance: “Once you get a couple impersonations down, you start to feel confident that you could probably go further.” Although these impressions appear effortless on stage, they often require a good deal...
...Foer’s formidable intellect remains preoccupied with the nature of violence and how a thinking person should go about dealing with it in the world. A recent father, Foer undertook the research for “Eating Animals”—an examination of the various aspects of animal agriculture—in order to come to an informed decision about whether or not to feed meat to his newborn son. What follows is a harsh portrayal of the modern factory-farming industry and an unflinching investigation of the implications that it has both for human...