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...well as I should” is no longer cute as the investment banks of Wall Street tumble around us. And after his vice-presidential choice was reduced to incoherence by Katie Couric, even his age has ceased to work as a punch line, because he may very well die...

Author: By Elise Liu | Title: Democracy 0, Man-Bracelets 1 | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...Olive Kitteridge,” I decided that my fears of living alone are not foolish, but universal. When Olive finds a man recently passed out in a walking trail, she offers to go find help. “I don’t care if I die...Just don’t leave me alone,” he replies. It is this sense of the urgent need for others, and the misery we will endure to connect to them, that is most resonating in “Olive Kitteridge.”—Staff writer Kerry...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Olive Kitteridge’ Explores the Same Thing Over and Over Again | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...Collins' editors know that old words die hard - and that some people will vilipend (regard with contempt) any execution without a fair trial. So they've offered the chance of a reprieve. They have made public 24 words that face deletion because editors could find no example of their use in their database of English-language books, newspapers, broadcasts and other media. If, by February 2009, a word reappears in that database with at least six "high quality" citations, it could be spared from the semantic dustbin. "We're looking to see if dropping a little stone in the pond...

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

...July. Hermann saw his velocity rise by a few miles per hour after college, and Walsh suggests that the same thing could happen to Haviland with the transfer to warmer weather. If his one-time ace is going to ascend the ranks, though, he’ll live and die with his curveball...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Haviland Off to Successful Start in Minors | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...Qaeda-linked insurgents, the U.S. sent warships to encircle the anchored vessel as an international fleet hurried to join them. In his interview with the Times, Ali seemed cheerfully fatalistic about the prospect of tangling with the world's naval superpowers: "We know you only die once." Rumors flew that three pirates had already perished during a shootout stemming from a disagreement over whether to surrender, but the pirate spokesman dismissed the claim. He said the marauders onboard would withstand the siege, and didn't seem in much of a hurry to defuse tensions. In the meantime, he said, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Pirates | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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