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...Despite the positive end result, the Harvard heavyweight varsity endured the same troubles off the start that have plagued the Crimson all season. At the San Diego Crew Classic in April, the varsity eight dropped almost a length off the start. It was a similar if less drastic tale in almost all of the dual races this season, and the same sluggishness struck again on Saturday...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Four of Five Races Against Northeastern | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...oppose listing the polar bear, including several western Senators, say that the species does in fact appear to be O.K. Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, the ranking Republican member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, calls sea ice studies such as the one run by USGS a "classic case of reality versus unproven computer models." In fact, he says, the number of polar bears has increased over the past half-century as a result of initiatives like the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, which sharply curtailed bear hunting; he thinks declaring the animal endangered would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Polar Bear Survive? | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...Morales government has already given landless Bolivians deeds to 25 million acres (10 million hectares). Some analysts suggest that staging the autonomy referendums is simply a political device to give the easterners greater leverage in pressing Morales to renegotiate constitutional changes. Others fear the rising tension points to that classic Western movie resolution: a violent showdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Rancher in Bolivia Showdown | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...before that wrote and starred in Swingers, maybe the sharpest buddy comedy of the '90s - knows that, when making a big movie, you do not leave your I.Q. at the soundstage door; you bend your gifts in different directions. He lends Iron Man the unobtrusive speed and precision of classic comedy. An actor before he was a director, he's not content to let his stars play stereotypes, or even archetypes. Bridges and Toub, and Gwyneth Paltrow as Stark's gal Friday (the most attractive she's been in years), aren't slumming in the least. They're rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Iron Man': A Movie Marvel | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...Kathy’s fancy-shmancy ice-cream maker” or their not-yet-conceived children’s educations: “We think it’s never too early to not count on winning Intel/Westinghouse...,” they write, in classic nerd form...

Author: By Jun Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where's the Money? | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

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