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...better time for the Crimson.Housman scored in double figures in each of Harvard’s last six games, during which it has gone an impressive 3-3, including thrilling last minute wins at Penn and against league-leader Cornell.It has been those two marquee wins that the Calabasas, Calif. native has been most on top of his game. He torched the Quakers for a game-high 22 points and dished out five assists—the last of which found junior guard Jeremy Lin for the game-winning three pointer. A week later, he dropped 20 points against...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Housman Dominant as Career Draws to a Close | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

Then came the cars. And the backyard barbecues. And the black-and-white TVs. Ozzy and Harriet, Lucy and Ricky, Leave it to Beaver. In September 1958, Bank of America tested its first 60,000 credit cards (later named Visa) in Fresno, Calif. Within a decade, Americans had signed up for more than 100 million credit cards. Today, the number tops 1 billion. African Americans were able to pull themselves into the middle-class bracket through the social gains of the civil rights movement, though a disproportionate number still live below the poverty line. (Read the 1974 TIME article "America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle Class | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...belief can heal when a good part of medicine's effectiveness can actually be traced to the power of belief: the placebo effect [Feb. 23]. Scientifically, we can see that creating a positive belief in the possibility of being healed can actually facilitate healing. Alfred A. Barrios, CULVER CITY, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

Though the article "25 People to Blame" was insightful, I cannot help but wonder why we are wasting time trying to place blame when we have so many problems to solve. The economy continues to suffer while we point fingers. Jennifer Payne, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...disappearance on May 6, 2001, when the parents of the 24-year-old intern in the Federal Bureau of Prisoners called to say they hadn't heard from their daughter in five days. The Levys and investigators quickly zeroed in on Gary Condit, an immaculately coiffed representative from Ceres, Calif. with a wife and two children - and with whom Levy was conducting a clandestine affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chandra Levy Case | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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