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WINNERS STEVEN SPIELBERG In the summer, a billion-dollar popular hit: Jurassic Park. In the winter, an Oscar-contending critical coup: Schindler's List...
...good playing a fast-paced, high-level game.” This was the third game of an 11-game tour—officially dubbed the Hilton Family Skate to 2006 Tour—for the U.S. National Team as it prepares for the 2006 Winter Olympics. “Our goal is to try to give them a little bit of a challenge on their way to Turino,” Stone said before the game. “They are gaining momentum now. I’m sure when they head off to Italy they will be ready...
...freaky climate, FM checked out ye olde bastion of meteorological knowledge: The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The paperback tome, published annually since 1792, purports to predict a year’s worth of America’s weather. This year, things look especially grim for Beantown. Come winter, Harvardians can look forward to reading period, latkes at Hillel, and “much greater than normal” snowfall, according to the Almanac. Not to mention the chill factor: temperatures will be “colder than normal in December and exceptionally cold in the second half...
...England really knows how to dish it out. We already knew that dark, blustery winters made you depressed. Now it turns out darkness might also encourage binge eating. Joseph A. Kasof—a researcher at University of California, Irvine who earned his Ph.D. at Harvard—recently conducted a study of about 400 UC students that found darkness “correlated positively with bulimic behavior in restrained eaters.” In the dark, he found, these people tend to binge more than purge. Kasof says that dim light might not be the only cause of seasonal...
...Pakistan’s location and political status. “Because the earthquake [was] in a remote and controversial place there hasn’t been as much awareness of the death tolls and the desperate situation of the people who are now facing a harsh winter,” she said. But Siddiqui said that he was encouraged by the success of the banquet. “The event shows Harvard students do care,” he said. Several other campus groups including the South Asian Association (SAA) have contributed to the relief effort in other ways...