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As Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, "Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century Christians." She's right, for despite some lively writing, much of her tale of the settlers who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony involves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Worst part about Harvard: Section Describe yourself in three words: Down to earth

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scoped! | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

The Obama campaign, by contrast, continues to invest heavily in positive issue-oriented advertising, including spots that describe Obama's economic and health-care plans. At the same time, Obama has been hitting McCain on the stump, charging that his campaign is running away from the real issues to launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McCain Map Out a Comeback Strategy? | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

Diane M. Paulus ’87 wears a navy blue suit to her office, but not without a thick silver bracelet spiraled around her wrist. The flashy piece of jewelry set against the somber hue of her skirt and jacket hints at the tension between the art and business...

Author: By Ama R. Francis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Would Paulus Do? | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

But reaction to the potential axing of words has revealed specialized meanings that seem to have escaped the dictionary's compilers. David Pybus, a perfumer in London, says agrestic's alternate meaning should qualify it for preservation: "It is used," he says, "in the perfume and flavor industry quite extensively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangman, Spare That Word: The English Purge Their Language | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

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