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...figure out what our team personality is,” Kerr said. “Now, our understanding of each other’s movements is good.” Looking down the road, both the Quakers and the Crimson will have to defeat perennial powerhouse Brown. At a brief glance, UPenn has the advantage of playing both of its main rivals at home in the friendly confines of Rhodes Field. Both Harvard and the Bears will make the long road trip down to Pennsylvania in what will serve almost as bookends to the Quakers’ Ivy slate...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Face Penn As Teams Eye Title Run | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. "Why are you here?" he shouted at the silent steel hulk. "You have done nothing but create misery. My city is in chaos because of you." The brief encounter between the man and the tank captured an epochal event in the lives of 1.1 billion Chinese: the state clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted in its tracks because the people got in its way, and because it got in theirs. Knowing something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Shifts | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...Welles under suspicion). The likelihood is that this was one of those dreadful crimes that emerge from the psychopathic minds and was in no way motivated by general social conditions or, indeed, by anything-other than perhaps a chance encounter-that was deeply woven into poor Betty Short's brief, sad, agonizingly ended life. In that sense it is both the perfect crime and the perfect subject for realistically rendered, but fantastically imagined crime fictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Review: The Black Dahlia | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

...hasn't returned home to either of her parents (who divorced before the abduction). Instead, she has been living at Vienna General Hospital, where she is likely to stay for at least another month in the care of a cadre of social workers and psychologists. She has arranged brief, if frequent, visits with her mother but in the first week saw her father only once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kidnapper's Trick | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...Introduction to Ethics,” will hit the spot. If you think utilitarianism is a snooze, however, you should look elsewhere: no less than six lectures are devoted to variations on the theme. Other hot topics include moral relativism, evolution, and euthanasia. The reading is brief, and usually focuses on one to three articles per week, although it is quite dense (Plato, anyone?).Harvey “The Man” Mansfield, author of “Manliness,” is also a purveyor of moral reasoning. He teaches MR 17, “Democracy and Inequality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moral Reasoning | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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