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...November sky, Notre Dame's beleaguered coach finally answered the hate mail of every irate fan in Christendom. Four days before the final game on his contract, Faust gave his notice. "Sometimes you don't know why these things happen," he said of 26 losses in 57 games, the direst total in 97 years of Irish history, outstripping even the terrible touchdown famine of Joe Kuharich. "You leave it to the Almighty. I think there was a purpose for me to be here. I enjoyed it. I had five wonderful years ... I'd do it over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shaking Free of the Thunder | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Harvard has traditionally deterred student travel to countries that receive the State Department’s direst travel notice which “warns U.S. citizens against travel” to the country in question. But when the OIP—in consultation with the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC)—reviewed and revised the restriction guidelines last July, the University’s travel restrictions were extended to cover all countries receiving any level of State Department warning, including the relatively mild request that travelers “carefully weigh the necessity of their travel?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Expanding Harvard's Horizons | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...would hope that there would be a condemnation of those who seek to condemn [Summers],” Wisse said. “I think the direst thing that one could do on campus would be to inhibit speech...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers, Faculty Brace for Meeting | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...live in perhaps the direst age for this grand old form since it evolved a century ago - exactly a century ago, if you count George M. Cohan's "Little Johnny Jones" as the prototype Broadway musical. For 60 years the Broadway-style show tune fueled the pop charts, is by now a dead, or at least obscure, language. (The only song from a recent Broadway musical that anyone outside mid-Manhattan knows is "Karma Chameleon," the old Boy George number woven into his score for the short-lived, lamented "Taboo.") The sad fact is that most people under 60 have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

...convenient, to frankly discuss many of these issues. As noted China scholar Ross Munro has written, “academic Sinologists tend to produce polite reports and mushy books that rarely go beyond cautiously advancing the consensus of the Sinological establishment. Even when addressing China’s direst problems, they have perfected language and phrasing that will not offend Chinese officialdom. To offend is to jeopardize one’s ability to visit China and interview Chinese officials and academics—access that constitutes the bread and butter of the Sinological trade. No access means no field research...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Our China Chimera | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

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