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...take it all desperately seriously and there would be lots of heaving of bosoms and moppings of brows. And I think in what I do and what they call chick-lit, everyone doesn't take life quite so seriously. Everybody's a lot more wry or ironic or will crack a joke rather than have their bosom heave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopaholic Speaks | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...series of unexplained military maneuvers around Moscow last fall fueled rumors that the army had used scare tactics to pressure Gorbachev. A much repeated story speaks of a tense meeting of the Communist Party Politburo at which the President was forced to back away from economic reform and crack down on separatism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Yeltsin: Russia's Maverick | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...Lombardo in the final round of competition. The response from Darryl W. Finkton ’10, a guard on the men’s varsity basketball team, was equally straightforward. “Don’t come at me with that, you talkin’ about crack / I got my shit from education, what you know about that?” he fired back. The winner of each round was chosen by a panel of three judges, including Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Peter Richards and The Darker Side member and Crimson magazine...

Author: By Sue Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frosh ‘Outwits’ Rap Rivals | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...first crack at GP2, the training ground for Formula One, Hamilton dominated the 2006 season. And hitting the world's premier driving circuit hasn't reduced his momentum - or his appetite for risky maneuvers. Hamilton is "not worried about showing what he's used to doing just because it's Formula One," says Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Built for Speed | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...they reside in the past. The present Harvard program is one of mediocrity—teams that barely crack .500, way behind Penn and Princeton in the Ivy standings...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Coach Seeks New Results | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

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