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...Watching Harvard's season fade, coach John Kerr makes another substitution, replacing defender Marcel Perl with Jeffrey Chivers...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMSON LIVE: Harvard at UCLA | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...FADE TO BLACK The stylishly noir bottle for Tom Ford's new fragrance, Black Orchid, a rich floral with black-truffle notes, is inspired by vintage Art Deco glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style: Dark Beauty | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...recent polls, the Democrat Bell has picked up steam, Friedman has started to fade fast and some 20% of voters remain undecided - an unusually high number for so late in the race. The problem for Perry's opponents is that Texans traditionally vote straight ticket 60% of the time. This year, the entrance of two independents into the race, however, has thrown old political calculations to the wind. "If this was a two-person race, he'd probably be in trouble, but as long as there's a four-person race, Perry wins with unimpressive numbers," says UT's Buchanan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: A Texas-Size Race for Governor | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...supervisor Don Knabe has lobbied Schwarzenegger to leave California's three-day law intact. He says pushing parents to make an early decision ensures that unwanted infants get the care and medical attention they need, and dissuades parents from abusing a baby and then waiting for the bruises to fade before giving up the infant. "If someone waits 30 days to surrender a baby, there is no way to determine if that baby suffered any harm during that time," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Mother Chooses to Give Away a Newborn | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...explain why I speak a distinctly upmarket version of received pronunciation (RP) - shorthand for the standard English of bbc newsreaders. Which is fine if you want to marry a landowner or work in a top art auction house, but not so much fun if you just want to fade into the background. People make assumptions: men think I'll boss them, employers think I'll try and run the place, strangers think I'll look down on them - so they get the boot in first. "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't the English Learn How to Speak? | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

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