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Scherf’s presence, and the general competitive spirit of all the runners involved, gave the River Run a little more credibility than your average IM sporting event. The Run will soon be forgotten as the participants return to the daily grind of problem sets and midterms, and I doubt it changed that football manager’s stance on who he hands out cups of water to, but for part of that Saturday morning, the lowest rung of Harvard athletics had the spotlight all to itself, even if no one was there to watch...
...problem peaks in the playoffs—as anyone who sat through the World Series can painfully attest. TBS, one of the networks covering the games, even arranged to have them spread out at 3:30 intervals, anticipating that they would run long. Of course, the fact that networks are now dictating start times unmasks the power to which baseball has sacrificed efficient games: television...
...advertisement revenue. Between every half-inning and during every pitching change, there is now a commercial break of at least a few minutes. When there is a lot of money to be made (as in October), that means squeezing in, say, one extra minute of ads per break. The problem is that this squeezes at least 20 extra minutes into the baseball game...
...prerequisite for attending the performance—a knowledge of muscular anatomy. Such knowledge would have been the only way to make sense of the extensive nomenclature that was thrown at the audience during the performance. But the alien-sounding names ended up not being too much of a problem. Porter’s poetry is a close reading of the muscles that move us. It pays attention to the detail of these organs’ functions and the beauty of their synchronized relationships. In her performance, Porter often emphasized this theme to make a statement about the importance...
...about at the national level but also executed at the local level. It might be disheartening to realize that many Chinese may never see a blue sky for their entire lives, but bureaucratic posturing and solutions that come too easily without proper environmental impact assessments can only exacerbate the problem. It’s a tightrope that China walks in its bid to become a new global power, with economic and environmental implosion all too plausible and immediate, visible even from my brief sojourn into the country...