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Harvard also sent a distance medley relay team, consisting of sophomores Sean Meeker, Matt Seidel and John Traugott, and freshman Alasdair McLean-Forman. The relay team placed 11th out of 15 teams in its heat with a time of 10:00.56—a better time than Heptagonal rivals Dartmouth and Columbia at the same meet...
None of the Crimson duffers was able to place in the top ten and thus make the All-Ivy team. Junior Andrew Malcolm was the closest, finishing in 11th place with a 232, one stroke out of tenth place...
...Where are they now? Rob Malda, founder of the news website Slashdot (profiled in September), has fostered hot Internet newcomers by giving away valuable code for free. David Neeleman's jetBlue airline (January) just celebrated its first birthday, took delivery of its 11th new Airbus 320 and prompted U.S. regulators to coin the term jetBlue effect, which occurs when the upstart enters a market and fares plunge. And the edgy Catalan chef Ferran Adria (November) got his own cooking show on Spanish TV. Of course, some of our rebels have had problems. Joseph Park, founder of the defiantly free...
...exports. The Athenians had a monthly poll tax, the metoikion, on foreigners (people whose parents were not both Athenian) of one drachma for men and half a drachma for women, while their contemporary Persians levied a tax called jizya on all non-Muslims living in Muslim-ruled areas. In 11th-century Britain, rising property taxes propelled Lady Godiva to ride the streets nude, inspiring popular reform as well as aristocratic candy. Meanwhile, Peter the Great of Russia is reported to have taxed beards, souls, hats, boots, beehives, basements, chimneys, food, clothing, birth, marriage and burial...
...history. As the myths have collided, the result has been a play of extremes: physical splendor alternating with utter destruction; moments of pious exultation oscillating with the grossest carnage. Or sometimes carnage and exultation at once. "Men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins," wrote an 11th century Crusader fresh from a massacre of Muslims on the Temple Mount. He added, "Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgment...