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...leader of this effort has been a freshman keeper Austin Harms, who in five games, has gone 5-0 and posted four, count ‘em, four shutouts...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: Time to Unleash Crimson Dragon | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...changing his mind every three days, his running matethough a looker—comes across as a little…light in the skills department, and the pair of them have looked spent for coupla weeks now.” “Hit ’em!” “What’s that, Karl?” “Knockout punch. Has that blowhard Biden ever been seen with an infant not his own—non-white, preferably?” “Come on, Turd Blossom, that trick only works...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: From Republican Headquarters | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...sent into any foreign wars." Always be sincere, Harry Truman said, even if you don't mean it. The presidency is less an office than a performance: Who saw the gloom and glower behind Eisenhower's incandescent grin? This is why temperament descends easily into caricature: the feisty Give-'Em-Hell Harry, the cool-as-crystal Kennedy, the Vesuvian Lyndon Johnson. "We've taken temperament and turned it," warns presidential historian Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University, into "vaudeville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Temperament Factor: Who's Best Suited to the Job? | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...that it was very unregulated.” To mediate between the various participants in the market and correct the inefficiency, the NCAA had to act. “This problem began to lessen between 1991 and 1992 when the NCAA pushed back ‘Pick’em Day,’ and said that [colleges] can’t get a bid before that day,” Roth said. “This increased the flexibility in the market.” After a reorganization of the market under a centralized authority, the researchers found that...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Markets, By Way of The BCS | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Give 'em a taste of their own medicine - that might as well be the motto of Operation Leopard, a new approach to policing adopted in the town of Pitsea in southeast England earlier this year. Local residents had complained of their deteriorating quality of life as reports poured in of mounting theft, vandalism and public drunkenness by gangs of petty criminals known as "hoodies" because of their preference for hooded sweatshirts. The local constabulary came up with an unlikely solution: "We basically decided to harass them," Fergus Caulfield of Essex Police says of the hoodies. Operation Leopard involves police officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Afraid of the Bad-Boy Cops? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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