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...meeting, the simmering controversy over Summers’ remarks boiled over into a wider crisis that quickly engulfed the entire University...
...boats crossed the finish line in heat time order, with Yale taking first, Cornell second, Penn third, and Harvard fourth. Yale posted a 5:41.89 time and Cornell followed in 5:43.39, a margin far wider than the 0.1 seconds that separated the Bulldogs from the Big Red for second place at Eastern Sprints. Penn crossed in 5:44.71 and the Crimson came next in 5:45.45, narrowly beating out the Hoyas...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art. Friedlander comes, Arbus goes. You imagine them saluting each other with whistle blasts like ships passing at sea. That's in part because their shows are the latest development in a process that began in 1967, when they were both introduced to a wider public in a pivotal MOMA exhibition that was entirely devoted to them and a third relative newcomer, Garry Winogrand. They were by no means artists of the same stripe, but John Szarkowski, who was then MOMA's supremely influential photo curator, rightly saw that all three were turning the practices of documentary...
...what happened next that has put the school on edge-and induced worries that al-Rubaiyi's death could spark a wider, bloodier conflagration. In the aftermath of the killing, mobs of Shi'ite students rioted at the college of pharmacy, blaming al-Hiti and his bodyguard-both of them Sunnis-for al-Rubaiyi's murder and vowing revenge. Al-Hiti and his bodyguard deny having anything to do with the murder. As the violence spread to a cluster of adjacent colleges, Sunni faculty members had to be evacuated by security guards, colleagues and students. When the rioters showed...
...planet to place them on, going by what will make the most interesting combinations. "Until now, we've used the computer as an automated opponent," says Wright. "Now we're trying to give it the intelligence to run the show." The result, Wright believes, will hook in an even wider circle of players than The Sims did. So cue Also Sprach Zarathustra and let the computer-induced epiphanies begin. --By Chris Taylor