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...Doctorow, acclaimed fiction writer of works like “Ragtime” and “World??s Fair”, was slated to speak earlier this week, but had to reschedule to proof pages for an upcoming work...
Back in the erg room, Stephens first caught Butt’s eye in his first trip to CRASH-Bs, the world??s premier indoor rowing competition. Under Butt’s watch, Stephens sat down on an erg and churned out a 6:20.3. A high school senior two months too old for the junior division, Stephens placed 30th in the collegiate lightweight division. It was just weeks after the Harvard application deadline, so Stephens went back to Canada...
...Penn Relays is the world??s first and perhaps most famous relay meet. Over the course of the competition, more than 425 races will be run by participants of all ages, and to fit all this in, an event goes off nearly every five minutes...
...institution be a vehicle for transcendence? I shocked my AP English class when I wrote a biting two-page satire in rhymed iambic pentameter about how hypocritical the high holidays were. Nonetheless, I chose to fast and attend services on Yom Kippur. The ritual made me think about the world??s hunger. It cleared my head. I was touched by the communal confession of sin (I couldn’t help comparisons to that other religion’s mode of confession) and the final prayers as the sun set. It was a beautiful observance...
What I couldn’t do was just not believe. Like many people with an artistic temperament, I worshipped the world??s mysteries—mountains, the ocean, art, and poetry—to the point of rapture. Anything I thought was beautiful brought me to tears. I loved my family and friends so fiercely that I frequently prayed for their safety, for our continued happiness. Belief of some sort seemed the only concept that could contain the intensity of my feelings. I dismissed the idea of a God who created humans, but a God who came...