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DIED. Stanley Kunitz, 100, acclaimed poet whose stark language and metaphysical bent earned him a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and two terms as U.S. poet laureate; in New York City. He produced a dozen books over 75 years, culminating with last year's The Wild Braid, an homage to his lifelong passion of gardening. The longtime Columbia University professor hammered out dense, restrained gems on a manual typewriter, tackling both the personal (his father's suicide) and the universal (life, death, rebirth). "The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once," he said...
...Unbeknownst to his mother Betty, Averell had successfully completed 13 episodes worth of international travel challenges alongside his teammate and best friend, Tyler Macniven. In reward for their victory on the hit reality TV series, both men have received $500,000. Averell, known in his time at Harvard for wild improvisational comedy shows and ostentatious behavior, said it was difficult to keep the secret from inquiring acquaintances since the conclusion of filming in December. In the show’s final installment, “Team Hippie”—as co-stars and fans tagged Averell...
Pity poor Joe Camel. With him out at the retirement pastures and the Marlboro man likewise roaming the wild blue yonder, who’s left to seduce pretty young things...
...preparation and the six-across start leave the winner’s dock wide open to upsets. “We really don’t expect anything,” said second varsity coxswain Amanda Caplan. “I think that despite Harvard’s wild success in the last three years, our crews have not ever gone into Sprints thinking ‘We’re going to sweep.’ We always go in with the sense that we have to do our best and nothing short of that will...
...that organizers would “refine the process somewhat” next year.Rinere said that the concentrations of selected Fellows was similar to the make-up of the student body. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, whose recent book, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got a Life,” was pulled from bookshelves after she was accused of plagiarism, was one of the fellows present at the session, according to several attendees. —Ying Wang contributed to the reporting of this article.—Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo...