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...founding member of New York’s renowned Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) improv troupe.When she wasn’t performing with My Mother’s Flea Bag, Poehler managed to uphold the college’s fine Jesuit tradition: “I spent a lot of time off campus shuttling kegs to and fro, and that was another part of my college experience.”PIE IN THE SKYBesides making more movies, Poehler has many “bigger ultimate goals” for the future. “They involve world peace, stopping global warming...
...read Aryn Baker's article onTalibanistan [April 2] with interest, since I spent time working in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and '90s. It isn't in the least odd that a Waziri elder in Pakistan should look to Afghan President Hamid Karzai as his leader. When I first went to Peshawar, I discovered that Pashtuns had contempt for Punjabis, that they speak a different language and have very different customs. Lieut. General Hamid Gul may be a former director general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, but old soldiers in Pakistan never really...
Shortly after his 50th birthday, Einstein also gave a remarkable interview in which he was more revealing than he had ever been about his religious sensibility. It was with George Sylvester Viereck, who had been born in Germany, moved to America as a child and then spent his life writing gaudily erotic poetry, interviewing great men and expressing his complex love for his fatherland. Einstein assumed Viereck was Jewish. In fact, Viereck proudly traced his lineage to the family of the Kaiser, and he would later become a Nazi sympathizer who was jailed in America during World...
...Harvard women’s lacrosse (2-6, 0-1 Ivy) team spent 40 brutal minutes battling both BU (4-4, 1-0 AE) and 20 mph winds yesterday at Nickerson Field before the game was called due to snow...
...will be able to drink hot coffee when we start commercial service." But that day may be a long time coming, because the maglev is as costly as it is speedy. Japan Rail (JR) Central, the ex-public company that operates the country's main shinkansen artery, has already spent nearly $2 billion developing the maglev. Building an operational line that would cover the 342 miles between Tokyo and Osaka -Japan's most heavily traveled rail route - would cost an estimated $70 billion. That price tag may be prohibitive for a country whose public debt is over 1.5 times...