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...last night. Five fire engines, an ambulance, a tow truck and a handful of police cars—all with lights flashing—cordoned off two blocks of JFK Street, as about 50 students and passersby looked on and a local news crew darted about the scene. The driver, whom police would not identify by name, was uninjured, according to multiple witnesses. The two Kirkland residents who were inside the library when the accident occurred, Jason M. Scherer ’08 and David A. Sherman ’08, also avoided injury. The vehicle, a gray Mazda...
...hotel to keep Cubans out of the guests’ rooms. I found out that the government does not want its citizens to see cable television. It might show them the trappings of more prosperous societies. Second, Cuba’s regime stifles innovation. I met a taxi driver who told me he left his post as a history professor because he could make more money from tourists’ tips in a day than he otherwise would in a month. Smith’s observation that people respond to economic incentives really seems to hold true in this case...
...blame to go around,” one professor said.But the Faculty’s dean for development, Scott Abell, cautioned against reading too much into the difficult relationship between Summers and Kirby as the primary cause for the dean’s resignation.“The biggest driver was Bill sitting there and taking a look at all of the change going on in China and its rapidly increasing importance,” Abell said. And, considering the challenges facing the dean of the Faculty in the coming years, Abell said, “there was just...
...novel; McCaughrean has delivered Peter Pan in Scarlet in as many months and though she's sworn to secrecy, she's itching to talk about it. There will be flying and fairy dust, of course. But 20 years after their flight to Neverland, Wendy is married, Michael a train driver, Tootles a judge in a wig. Trouble is brewing in Neverland, but as grown-ups, they cannot go back there until they discover how to be children once more. Can McCaughrean make Peter Pan fly again? If you believe she can, clap your hands...
...warm summer months, a top Italian luge team, Gerhard Plankensteiner and Oswald Haselrieder, live and work together as forest rangers in Cortina. They share hotel rooms on the road and put in long hours prepping for competition. "We're like married couples," says Todd Hays, the top U.S. bobsled driver, sharing a sentiment echoed by dozens of athletes in these sports. Some skaters, in fact, do get hitched. All that time in close quarters breeds a panoply of team dynamics - lasting friendships, near psychic synchronicity, petty sniping and, in the case of the skaters, love, marriage and divorce. "The codependency...