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...lock of Brawne’s hair, a silhouette of her shapely figure, and other intimate artifacts commemorate a relationship that was only revealed to the public long after both had passed away. So few items remain of their love affair that there are no extant records of Brawne’s correspondence. A romantic until his death, Keats was buried with his letters from Brawne, leaving fans and researchers to only speculate about her role in the relationship...

Author: By Emily S. Shire, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: John Keats Heats Up Houghton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...from allegations that officials withheld information on civilian casualties from the public. The scandal has claimed the scalps of former Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung and the German army's chief of staff, Wolfgang Schneiderhan. Paying compensation to victims' families is one way to draw a line under the affair as quickly as possible. An out-of-court settlement would avoid a long legal battle with relatives of the victims, and the amount of the payout will depend on the number of civilian casualties. A Defense Ministry spokesman says the government hopes for "a fast, unbureaucratic solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anger Mounts in Germany Over Its Afghan Air Strike | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

Tiger has made it clear that the alleged affairs mounting are not all hearsay. On his personal website, Tiger issued a statement offering a “profound apology” for “transgressions” that he regrets “with all of my heart.” The details of these transgressions, however, remain vague. U.S. Weekly released a voicemail allegedly left by Tiger on Los Angeles cocktail waitress Jeremy Grubbs’s phone asking the woman to erase her name from his phone, and the 24-year-old has told the press that...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tiger Trap | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

Even more disconcerting to the Ivygate-obsessed, a Nov. 18 post was neither a snarky analysis of a professorial affair nor a dig at preppy Yale students, but rather a plea for more blog writers...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IvyGate Returns! | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...seemed like an improbable love affair. By June 1992, The Weekly World News had already been conjuring bizarre creatures, unusual sightings, and freakish situations for 13 years, and if Hollywood hadn’t already put the public through the ringer of supernatural scenarios, then WWN was probably coming scarily close to filling any gaps in the collective imagination. But whether it was the strangely sympathetic, glassy round eyes or the face that rivaled Macaulay Culkin’s “Scream” impression, Bat Boy, who made an appearance for the first time that month, caught...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Bat Boy" Sighting a Pleasantly Strange Event | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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