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...late January, Harvard took on Brown in what amounted to a warm-up for the all-important Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet the following week. The Crimson doubled up Brown, 163.5-78.5, and Shevchik had a breakthrough meet, which included setting a personal best in the 200 backstroke...
Instinct," in its human applications, can be a fighting word. Prefaced with "maternal," it's often deployed as a warm-up for the old "barefoot and pregnant" prescription for feminine fulfillment. In fact, if motherhood is a mindlessly instinct-driven occupation, why bother with feet at all? In their zeal to reduce women to reproductive devices, the ancient Chinese eliminated the female foot, at least as a means of locomotion. More recently, in 1981, a male biologist implied in the esteemed journal Science that human females evolved to stand upright long after males did because what did females have...
Morning choir members gathered in the church basement by 8:25 Monday morning for a short warm-up and run-through of that morning's piece. They got through the piece twice that morning, a rare occurrence, according to Somerville...
Still, Andy Cato and Tom Findlay's DJ set would certainly have made converts out of any wavering non-believers. The duo had apparently arrived late; fortunately, the warm-up DJ did a good job of entertaining the crowd, and the reception when the Armada took to the Karma stage was indulgent. Groove Armada lived up to expectations, opening their eclectic set with some Latin-influenced house tunes (including a tasty remix of Basement Jaxx's "Jump and Shout") before moving on to throw on some breakbeat tunes, some funk and even an old-school track from the Sugarhill Gang...
Howard and Webber, however, have no chance of winning a NBA championship anytime soon. Webber's Sacramento team will be a good warm-up for the Lakers, Jazz, or Trailblazers in the first round...