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...seems odd to award honors to students who have not earned honors in their concentrations, given that work in the concentration is the most important component of undergraduates’ work here,” Pedersen wrote in an e-mail earlier in the semester...
...palate, self-tanners, much like the cosmetics that one applies after the tanner has set, stop at caramel. Rather they take that caramel color and shine it up a bit, give it a one-part-sun-kissed-sweat-mixed-with-two-parts-South-of-France-glow for a metallic, odd-looking color aptly named bronze. As I read the June issue of Glamour, it seemed that a race of she-bots stared back at me, their bronze metallic skin glowing in the studio-filtered sun, their blonde hair only slightly lighter than their newly tanned skin. All of the winter...
...think definitely I was my own worst enemy the first two innings,” Nyweide said. “I think I threw 50-some odd pitches. One of the things I learned from the summer was basically you fake it ‘til you make it and you just got to keep plugging and we finally had a few quick innings...
Bletchley Park is an unlovely name for an unlovely country house. In World War II it was home to a collection of English crossword-puzzle addicts, math geeks, even the odd minor poet or two, whose supersecret work on German codes probably shortened the war by months if not years. Their greatest success was in cracking Enigma, the machine-generated numerical language by which the Germans communicated with the submarine wolf packs that preyed on the Atlantic shipping routes vital to Britain's survival...
Last year, the Yale lightweight crew won both the Goldthwait Cup and the Eastern Sprints crown, only to watch Harvard win the national title by less than a second. The championship continued Harvard’s unusual streak of winning at IRAs every odd year since 1991. 2002 has come with no guarantees, but the Crimson rowers are making the adjustments to enjoy their time on the water—changes that will hopefully translate into speed...