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Unlike the past two years, where Penn beat the Crimson by one and two goals respectively, the Quakers could not convert another goal to force overtime, letting Harvard win with a final score...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Edges Out Quakers in Ivy League Opener | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...buzz of a sure-fire Oscar nominee, particularly given the Academy's decision this year to expand the Best Picture slate to 10 titles. The rollout of Precious seems to be following the familiar playbook: gaining momentum at three key festivals (Sundance, Cannes and Toronto) and looking to convert critical support into public intrigue and attendance when the movie hits theaters in November. (Read about why the Academy needs 10 nominees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Oprah Lead Precious All the Way to Oscar? | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...Fears of a Clown Beck is 45, tireless, funny, self-deprecating, a recovering alcoholic, a convert to Mormonism, a libertarian and living with ADHD. He is a gifted storyteller with a knack for stitching seemingly unrelated data points into possible conspiracies - if he believed in conspiracies, which he doesn't, necessarily; he's just asking questions. He's just sayin'. In cheerful days of yore, he was a terrific host of a morning-zoo show on an FM Top 40 station. But these aren't cheerful times. For conservatives, these are times of economic uncertainty and political weakness, and Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...that he made the mistake of keeping a distance from Congress because he didn't want to "step on any toes." Shoring up moderate Dems is a beginning; he must also work to garner support across the aisle, where Maine's Olympia Snowe is currently considered the most likely convert. During the summer of discontent, the White House stopped reaching out to some key potential votes: the other Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, says she hasn't heard from anyone at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue since July, and retiring Ohio Senator George Voinovich, another Republican often mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Obama's Speech, It's Back to Wooing the Skeptics | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...real estate, private equity, timber, and other commodities. Such investments added long-term value to the endowment and brought sustained growth in previous years, but also reduced the portfolio’s liquidity—meaning that the University’s assets became more difficult to sell and convert to cash on short notice...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Endowment, Largest in Higher Education, Plummets by 27% | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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