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...book The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes: "I loved the law school classroom: the stripped-down nature of it, the high-wire act of standing in front of a room at the beginning of each class with just blackboard and chalk, the students taking measure of me, some intent or apprehensive, others demonstrative in their boredom, the tension broken by my first question - What's this case about? - and the hands tentatively rising, the initial responses and me pushing back against whatever arguments surfaced." Professor Obama is facing a classroom the size of America now. The question is whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Professor Obama's Class | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...heats. The varsity crew ended up taking second behind Navy in the Petite Final, battling Penn and MIT for the silver, while the JV eight won its Petite Final. “We would obviously have liked to do better, but I think it’s unfair to chalk up a whole season’s worth of work into one six-minute piece,” captain and second varsity seven-seat Pat Mulcahy said. “There’s a hole lot more that goes into it.”The Harvard lightweights will next...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inexperience Stops Harvard from Continuing to Grand Final | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...Fewer and fewer Americans believe that gay Americans are gay out of lifestyle choice only. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama chalk sexual orientation up to some combination of biological and environmental factors. If they are right, then to oppose same-sex marriage is to oppose a societal avenue toward commitment, toward monogamy, and toward maintaining social structures that are in line with mainstream society. Given that a prevailing criticism of gay Americans is that their lifestyles are licentious, then encouraging them to pursue more conservative ends is an appropriate measure to make homosexuality less “objectionable...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Right, Where You Least Expect It | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...would obviously have liked to do better, but I think it’s unfair to chalk up a whole season’s worth of work into one six-minute piece,” Mulcahy said. “There’s a whole lot more that goes into...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Crew Misses the Boat to Grand Finals | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...religious about taking precautions. When outdoors, he usually dons a baseball cap, even in the dim light of winter. His chalk-pale skin is a testament to the care he now takes in the sun. "I hope everyone has some sunscreen," he told the traveling press at a recent campaign stop in the coal hills of Kentucky. His doctor checks for new blemishes every few months, with his last announced checkup taking place in March. "Everything's fine," McCain said the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Healthy Is John McCain? | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

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