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...always thought we were put together as freshmen by height.” The three residents of Weld 17 were all over 6’4”, with Crichton standing the tallest.The kid known as tallest in class would graduate from Harvard Medical School and become known for writing best-selling science fiction novels on topics ranging from dinosaurs recreated from DNA to extraterrestrial spherical artifacts, eventually emerging as a strident popular critic of the science behind global warming. Crichton died unexpectedly after a private battle against throat cancer in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 66.Esherick...
...common thread: Harvard alumni. “I’m a real admirer of the concept behind the magazine,” he says. “You had a stake in a sophisticated, largely affluent audience, and you had a very interesting group of people to write about underneath the umbrella of Harvard alumni.” True, with featured alumni like Tommy Lee Jones ’69, Al Gore ’69, and (sort of) Bill Gates, “You could cover politics, finance, the arts, architecture, really anything.”Still, there...
...Voice were just a group of first-timers genuinely trying to write something new and stumbling a bit along the way, these problems might be forgivable. Publishing a full-color newspaper every week, however, is enormously expensive, to say nothing about the cost of the incessant merchandising and trinket offers which the paper has set out as come-alongs. Other student groups, even well-established ones, can only dream about having that kind of money. What is at work in The Voice’s shoddy quality is not amateurism or a lack of resources. It is a superficial showmanship...
...push for gays to get out their checkbooks, turned out to be quite successful in the short term. East Coast gays had been lulled into inaction by the Oct. 10 Connecticut Supreme Court decision granting gay couples the right to marry - a decision that hadn't required gays to write a single check. But gay people in Los Angeles and San Francisco cajoled and shamed their Eastern friends into opening their wallets. Thousands of California gay couples got married in the past few weeks, and I didn't see a single invitation to a gay ceremony that didn't include...
...rejected outright the notion that McCain had been changed by former handlers of President George W. Bush, like Steve Schmidt, the McCain strategist who had worked with Karl Rove in 2004. "This sort of Maureen Dowd nonsense, comic-book theorizing about the Bushies who hijacked McCain - she can never write a serious column," he said of the New York Times columnist. "It's just nonsense. Everybody, everybody felt a personal responsibility to protect McCain's reputation...