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...game delayed an hour due to a late-arriving referee crew, the Crimson unleashed a torrent of third-period goals to turn a tight contest into a laugher...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Takes Two on Regular Season’s Opening Weekend | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...game away from its first Ivy title in 13 years, an aggressive Crimson offense took no chances against Columbia. Senior midfielder Shelley Maasdorp found the net just six minutes into the contest, recording her 18th goal of the season. Maasdorp rocketed Gannon’s stick stop from a penalty corner into the back of the net on Harvard’s first offensive opportunity of the game...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Win Gives Field Hockey Title, NCAA Berth | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...just us, or does the Today show's MATT LAUER look alarmingly at ease with a bare-midriff, miniskirt and pumps? For the morning program's annual Halloween costume contest last week, Lauer got gussied up as socialite Paris Hilton, while co-anchor KATIE COURIC made for a Mini-Me DONALD TRUMP, and weatherman AL ROKER channeled a pre-diet Oprah Winfrey. Supposedly on some other networks people in blazers and pearls actually read news and interviewed guests. But frankly, we were too mesmerized by Lauer's shapely calves to notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Day at the Office | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Sykes worked for the National Security Agency and started doing stand-up after entering a Washington talent contest in 1987. She quit her job five years later to move to New York City, where she met Chris Rock, who hired her as a writer for his HBO show. She got her performing break when fellow writer (and star, as a nonsense-spewing rapper, of the movie Pootie Tang) Lance Crouther agreed to take her to a work party for HBO's Inside the NFL, even though he wasn't supposed to take a guest. Sykes, who was told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanda Sykes Wants It All | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...only sizable group within the political process that is associated with the Sunnis, the Iraqi Islamic Party, is poorly organized and scorned by the clerics for having contributed two ministers to interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's government. The other prominent Sunnis likely to contest the elections represent secular parties of uncertain popularity. Adnan Pachachi's Iraqi Independent Democrats, Nasser Chaderchi's National Democratic Party and Wamid Nadhmi's Arab Nationalist Movement are all maneuvering to form electoral alliances with Shi'ite and Kurdish parties rather than appeal to Sunni voters. The highest-ranking Sunni in the U.S.-backed interim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As for That Other Election | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

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