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...After almost 400 seniors signed the petition in support of the fund, in April 1983 the Undergraduate Council approved the creation of this alternative to the senior class’ traditional contribution...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 1984 Senior Gift Meets World Politics | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

What is the correct way to run? Prior to the creation of the modern running shoe, people were taught how to run either by a running coach or by simple feedback from their feet. If something hurt, you would start running differently. You'd never, ever land on your heel on a thinly cushioned shoe, because it hurt. Your heel's not designed to absorb impact. Running should feel weightless. It should feel like you're floating in space. It's basically a series of controlled jumps. Then we started trying to trump nature and come up with something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of the Lonely Long-Distance Runner | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...make her into a good Victorian girl. But she ends up a lost plaything, at home nowhere, a novelty like her own pet albino possum, batted this way and that by the rich white people who dote on her and then discard her. Mathinna is Flanagan's most successful creation, and his saddest. She's a savage ruined by the desires of the cultured English - an irony lost on everyone but the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Novel Explores Dickens' Messy Life | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...footsteps of such literary giants as Matthew Arnold, Cecil Day-Lewis, W.H. Auden, Robert Graves and Seamus Heaney. Yet even in this illustrious company, there was something that distinguished Padel from the crowd: she was the first woman to win election to the five-year post since its creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwinian Struggle: A Poet Felled by Scandal | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

Boutros-Ghali will also need to keep a close eye on his country's own economy: the global downturn has hit Egypt's growth. "The big problem is that it will slow job creation, and we can't afford that," Boutros-Ghali says. But, he adds, there's no reason to panic just yet: "We have a comfortable balance of payments and reserves." With a little luck, Egypt may escape the "pointy end" of the IMF's policies this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boutros-Ghali's Developing Vision for the IMF | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

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