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...With nine minutes remaining until halftime, Berry confirmed the notion that Harvard was the faster overall team. Cradling the ball at the top of the key, she made an Iverson-esque step fake to her left side, paused momentarily, and froze her defender as she exploded to the hoop and finished over two Lions with a lefty scoop layup...

Author: By Justin W. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Drops Lions in Physical Contest | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...music but little respect; today we have great respect but no love.” I think there’s nothing worse than respect. Stravinsky used to say if given the choice between love and respect, he’d take love any day. There is this fake affectation of respect for music, but people aren’t really getting inside it. THC: Since “Green Eggs and Hamadeus” is targeted towards families, what kind of atmosphere would you like to create for parents and their children at performances?RK: What?...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kapilow Channels Seuss | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

That's a shocking bit of understatement. The tape - which Guantánamo officials should consider as a method of nonlethal torture - was a rambling (and fake) voice-mail message that purported to invite the listener to a 21st-birthday party. In it, the party's host talks about someone's sick cat; she mentions her redecorated kitchen, the weather, someone's new house in Colchester and a vacation in Edinburgh that involved museums and rain. In all, she mentions eight place names and eight people who are definitely coming to the party. (See pictures of office cubicles around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...Books with Missing Pages At Tepe Zargaran, a newly discovered site near Balkh, there is no need to put up fake signs to ward off looters - most of the local diggers now working with the joint Afghan-French excavation team were once raiders themselves. Besenval shrugs: "That's the best way to neutralize them: give them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Treasure Trove for Archaeologists | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...their airways swelled up. The same went for smelling peanuts. Thirty peanut-allergic children were asked to sniff peanut butter and a placebo paste for 10 minutes each, and none developed a reaction to the peanut butter. Only one child had difficulty breathing - and that was after sniffing the fake peanut butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're Going Nuts Over Nut Allergies | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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