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...with a Republican in the White House, Tribe’s chances at the Supreme Court bench are next to nil. He was considered a contender in the Clinton years, but Senate Republicans would have fiercely resisted his nomination: Clinton aides conducted a head-count of the Senate, Tribe says, and they concluded that he could have been confirmed but that he would have faced “a bloodbath of opposition...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Humble Start on the Path to Stardom | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...soccer team this Oct. 1 in a friendly against Taipei.After a year off, Markgraf once again takes her place as one of the seasoned veterans of the national team. Since her debut in 1998, she has started 137 matches and made 146 total appearances, coming off the bench only nine times. In her career, she has been to the Women’s World Cup twice and played for the U.S. Olympic Soccer team in 2000 and 2004.In 1999, U.S. women’s soccer reached the mainstream, as the squad won the World Cup—on American soil...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: National Team Star Coaches Crimson | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

Like thousands of graduating seniors at the height of the recruiting season last month, Vayner sent out a resumé. In his case, it catalogued a bizarre but impressive array of accomplishments—Aleksey had a 140-mph tennis serve and a 500-pound bench press, he had authored a book touted as “a unique gendered perspective on the Holocaust,” and he was CEO of a non-profit that helped disadvantaged children...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Wanted: Self-Aggrandizement | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...speed up the sideline, Harvard caught a break in the 83rd minute when Cornell midfielder Tom Marks received his second yellow card of the match. Head referee Mike Violet drew the red card from his pocket and sent Marks on his lonely walk of shame to the Big Red bench. Fucito, who incurred the foul that resulted in the red, said afterwards, “it gave us a little bit of a lift, especially since we struggled a bit today. It pisses me off [getting fouled], but I try to use that productively, rather than retaliating...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Altchek’s Overtime Header Brings Second Ivy Win | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994 may well have been written last week in the same medium that incubated it: talk radio. On conservative commentator Laura Ingraham's show, the longest-serving Republican House Speaker in history explained why he would not resign despite a sex scandal that has produced a hail of questions about his leadership and the failure to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of a Revolution | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

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