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Various Perspectives on “The Shot”
Monday, 14 March 2011
by Giri Nathan
More than a day has passed and I still find myself watching and re-watching Doug Davis’s buzzer-beater in some kind of enraptured tigerblooded trance. I quickly tired of the original version, though, and hungered for more. Fortunately the Internets are very good at indulging this kind of inane curiosity; tons of alternate angles cropped up
Week in Review: Babies and Gravity Edition (July 5 – July 12)
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
by Giri Nathan
Top of the agenda this past week: a really, really smart person says gravity is an “illusion” and LeBron James’s Princeton grad dad emerges from the mist. Wait, what? First off: we pay our respects to Norman Ryder, a revolutionary Princeton sociologist who passed away at the age of 86. Ryder pioneered the “cohort” approach
- Published in Alumni, Faculty, Sports, Week in Review
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babies, Erik Verlande, fertility, gravity, LeBron James, Leicester Bryce Stovell, Norman Ryder, paternity, physics
The Things They Carried
Saturday, 29 May 2010
by Giri Nathan
As the Class of 2010 barreled into Poe Field to conclude today’s epic P-rade, I noticed that few graduating seniors were running empty-handed. Here are some of the things they carried: beer. one another. beer. a dog, hoisted overhead. a baby, similarly held. I was genuinely concerned about the last two. (They were moving really,
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babies, beer, Class of 2010, dogs, P-Rade, terrifyingly cavalier handling of living things