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...last speaker at the rally, Scott T. Gregg ’11, shared a personal story demonstrating the importance of access to drugs by comparing the fate of people in third world countries to the experiences of his father who suffered from a brain hemorrhage, and grandfather, who suffered from malaria respectively...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: President Faust: Tear Down This Wall | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...That’s Theseus... He’s got this ball of string his girlfriend gave him, see. And he’s using it to find his way back out of the maze,” the young Calliope is told by her father. Drawing from the Greek heritage that the two of them share, Calliope Stephanides, the hermaphrodite narrator of Jeffrey Eugenides’ second novel “Middlesex” who will come to be known as Cal, follows the history of his family across two generations and one ocean in order to come...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eugenides’ Transitive Epic | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Meanwhile, some dude named Walter Camp, class of 1880, a.k.a. the “Father of American Football,” invented college football and helped Yale win 18 national titles. Dinner’s on you, Cantabs...

Author: By John Song, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: YALE: Why the Bulldogs Will Win on Saturday | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...songs, “Battle Studies” arrives on the heels of a very public romance with Jennifer Aniston and a raised celebrity profile. He implements a much more pensive, gloomy tone on this album, aiming to speak from the heart rather than the tabloids. Instead of father-daughter relationships and inescapable forces of nature, he sings of bombs, killers, and arson, all of which serve as metaphors for his lovelorn misadventures...

Author: By Zachary N. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Mayer | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...election, Obama tasked Craig with dismantling Bush's interrogation and detention policies. Craig seemed the logical choice. An Ivy League-trained lawyer and former top staffer for Ted Kennedy, he had taken on politically unpopular causes over the years, including representing Elián González's father in his effort to return his son to Cuba. Craig helped defend his law-school classmate Bill Clinton against impeachment, but he broke from the Clintons in 2007 to back Obama and became a key player in his meteoric rise to the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

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