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...front-runner for Player of the Year—in 2006-07, he was eighth in the Ivies in scoring, third in rebounding, and first in field-goal and three-point accuracy. Plus, he tallied a team-leading five wins on the mound for the Columbia baseball team.Senior center Ben Nwachukwu does not mess around. Point guard Patrick Foley is an electric playmaker, and coach Joe Jones is knee-deep in wings who can shoot. The Lions may make City college hoops (apologies to Manhattan and Wagner and the like) relevant come March.3. YALEThe thing with Yale...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '07: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Around the Ivies | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...Which would make Fred Claus the third comedy-star vehicle to tank this fall, after Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid and Owen Wilson's The Darjeeling Limited. In this movie, the usual shaggy energy that makes Vaughn so appealing - he's a louche cannon - is hardly evident. The actor has to be surly, then sanctified, and neither plays to his strengths. Will Ferrell could play it cute-innocent in Elf; here, Vaughn just looks snowed under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...Shakespeare's," says Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate. "And there's no doubt he's been unluckily marginalized. But I object to the idea that he alone is Shakespeare's equal. Christopher Marlowe was as good at tragedy as Middleton. And the best comedies of the age are probably Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts." Taylor welcomes the debate: "That's the way scholarship works: people disagreeing with each other. Now that we have this edition, everyone can go to work." After 400 years as English drama's dirty little secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Middleton: For Adults Only | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...Olympic events, training camps and to the Olympics themselves in Beijing, China. This will significantly limit our athletes' ability to prepare for important events. And it will have further significant implications as we head towards the London 2012 Olympics." Newly crowned European long board champion and English champion Ben Skinner is also raising his voice in protest, saying, "As part of the British team I have always traveled with BA. I think it's a disgrace that they have thrown this ban back at us. BA seems to have totally underestimated the amount of business they stand to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Airways: No to Surfers | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...development and persistent hunting for food, medicine and animal skins has reduced the populations of species like the golden-headed langur from thousands of animals in the middle of last century to only 65 today. "The more we look at it, the worse the picture seems to get," says Ben Rawson, a Hanoi-based primatologist with Conservation International (CI), another sponsor of the recent report. Conducting primate surveys in the region, he says, has turned into a process of "documenting the decline of these species for science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Monkeys from Extinction | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

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