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...tone of the meet was set Friday night with the opening 200-meter freestyle relay. For the first three legs the crowd held its breath as swimmers from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton matched one another stroke for stroke. But any hopes Yale or Princeton had of squeaking out a victory were dashed by senior Alex Kurmakov, who powered out an incredible anchor leg to win by three-tenths of a second...
Leading the way for Princeton is talented senior swingman, Gabe Lewullis. Lewullis leads the team in scoring and rebounding, averaging 14.8 points and 5.2 rebounds per game, respectively. The athletic 6'6 forward also has a sweet shooting stroke, having connected on 41 shots from behind the are this season...
...First Ladies must balance them; if one part overwhelms the other, the result can be disastrous. Take the Wilsons--Woodrow and his second wife Edith, whose 1915 courtship and marriage were the stuff of a romantic novel but catastrophic for the country. After Wilson was felled by a massive stroke in 1919, Edith kept him in office as a form of therapy--she thought a resignation would quicken his death--concealing the truth from the world. Half-paralyzed and nearly blind, Wilson became more rigid in a way that would affect history, refusing to compromise in order to gain Senate...
...misunderstanding. Whenever the millennium is, it's not really next year, even if that's when just about everybody will be marking it. The party crowd pounding back beers in Times Square, the doomsayers bunched in armored yurts, all of them will greet the millennium at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31. But by more careful calculations, the millennium began a few years ago. A large part of the misunderstanding stems from Dionysius Exiguus--Latin for "Dennis the Short"--a 6th century monk who should be thought of as the original millennium bug. Dennis laid down the basis...
What would Dracula say? The thickness of arterial walls in the neck may be a more powerful predictor of heart attack and stroke for elderly folks than high blood pressure or cholesterol, scientists reported last week. The walls of the carotid arteries can be easily viewed with a $250 sonogram...