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...Shots are not falling for Harvard, and Brown is getting to the line. Boehm is, in a word, incensed. The Crimson have scored four points in almost nine minutes...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: MEN'S BASKETBALL AT BROWN | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...McNally almost with the steal, but it's called a foul. "Big Country" is at the line...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: MEN'S BASKETBALL AT BROWN | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...position—which History of Science Department Chair Anne Harrington described as “three quarters teaching and one quarter research”—places a much larger emphasis on teaching than ladder-faculty positions do. Since the Fellows would be teaching “almost full time,” they may not have enough time to write and do research, said Gennaro Chierchia, chair of the Linguistics department. Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis said that he is optimistic about the fact that the position places such a large emphasis on teaching...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ph.D.s To Fill Teaching Posts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...raised as though he were blocking the moonlight, brought his hand to the heart, and opened his arms to the heavens. In the ballet, this passage invokes the birth of the ballerina; here, the cello accompaniment of Yo-Yo Ma and flickering candles invoked the birth of an almost holy union of artistic commitment among individuals with different predispositions and brought fortitude to the power of art to coalesce.President Drew Gilpin Faust was meant to read an excerpt from her book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” but, according...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Witness'ing the Interplay Between Arts and Rights | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...pioneers in the re-entry field is the Fortune Society, a New York City organization run almost entirely by former inmates. Fortune offers help on all fronts to those lucky enough to win one of 70 beds in its granite-stone facility in West Harlem known as the Castle - a former Catholic girls' school, yeshiva and onetime crack house. Though the organization is dealing with its own budget cutbacks, it recently broke ground for a $43 million mixed-use building right next door, which will have 114 units. As more ex-cons re-enter society, the Fortune Society expects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another By-Product of the Recession: Ex-Convicts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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