Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Closure is a difficult commodity to come by in college athletics. Players come and go, there are good years and there are bad years. In hockey, the end of one season blends into spring and summer of weight lifting and dry land training, then there is Midnight Madness and an exhibition game two weeks later...
...story of creation, the Book of Genesis long, long ago crumbled under the weight of science, notably Darwin's theory of natural selection. But Genesis isn't just about the beginning of the human race. It is also about the beginning of evil--about how and why sin and suffering entered human experience and stayed there. And here the verdict of science is more ambiguous. In some ways, the Bible's account of evil actually draws strength from the very Darwinism that undermined its account of history...
Costuming, sets and props, which bear a lot of the weight and scrutiny in this type of period-piece, are first rate. Credit should also be granted to the care taken to make the play's grotesques truly grotesque: LBJ is represented as a disembodied head atop a glob of what looks like ground beef and pasta that is rolled onto the stage in a wheelbarrow; Lee Radziwell (Jackie's sister) as a child is shown as a three-foot-tall (gnomish) creature wearing a straw hat and a cardboard baby doll dress; Hugh Auchincloss is completely inanimate...
...like, c'mon, we've rowed in worse than this," said Jonathan P. Feeney '97, a member of the heavy-weight men's team. "We would have had a good time regardless of the weather...
...first-person account of taking Redux, Jeffrey Ressner admitted he was not an ideal candidate for the drug but talked his doctor into prescribing it, did not complete the course of treatment before offering his conclusions and failed to note the obvious cause of at least part of his weight loss: his consumption of chopped salads and grilled vegetables instead of French fries and pasta. If Ressner was going to be a guinea pig, why not go whole hog? Give us a week-by-week report on his progress on Redux, including the inevitable weight-loss slowdown and frustration. Then...