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...decided it was worth sharing my recent ruminations with the folks, concluding of course with the conviction that my failure to become an Olympic athlete was all their fault. A feisty rebuttal ensued. Not only did they remind me of the countless practices they drove me to and games they watched, but they even brought out photographic proof of their efforts: my older brother and I holding tennis racquets taller than ourselves, swimming with floaties the size of our heads, and doing gymnastics in matching spandex outfits. (I have since burned the latter...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Gold Medal Blues | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...blocks. Throughout the first set, the Harvard and Sacred Heart squads jostled for the lead, tying several times. Two forced Pioneer errors followed by one of Comrie’s kills let the Crimson eventually tie the game at 24-24. Taking advantage of an ensuing Harvard fault, Sacred Heart’s Mallie Herthington aced the serve and sealed the first set in favor of the Pioneers, 26-24. “We were playing around with a lot of different lineups, trying to find a rhythm,” Kocurek said. The second and third games featured similar...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Drops Tight Game In Loss | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...tornado spinning too fast to be comprehensible--Charlie for President? Charlie as President? Charlie as the ultimate arbiter of war and peace? Indeed, Alice belatedly finds herself facing a moral dilemma: Was it possible that the disaster of Charlie's presidency--the war, the thousands dead--was her fault, just as the long-ago auto accident had been? Was she, having forced Charlie to sober up and get his act together, responsible for giving the nation this charming but limited man as its President? She is boggled by the simultaneous intimacy and superficiality of public life--that the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private History | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...conservative is Barack Obama. He is a careful man, perhaps to a fault. His vice-presidential selection process was quiet, orderly and comprehensive. The selection of Joe Biden was no great surprise - he added experience to the ticket, a reliable loyalist and gleeful attack dog, a working-class Roman Catholic with a terrific personal story. The process was in keeping with the rest of Obama's candidacy: he has taken no great risks. His policy positions are carefully thought out and eminently reasonable, reflecting the solid middle ground of a Democratic Party that is more united on substance than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How McCain Makes Obama Conservative | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...tornado spinning too fast to be comprehensible - Charlie for President? Charlie as President? Charlie as the ultimate arbiter of war and peace? Indeed, Alice belatedly finds herself facing a moral dilemma: Was it possible that the disaster of Charlie's presidency - the war, the thousands dead - was her fault, just as the long-ago auto accident had been? Was she, having forced Charlie to sober up and get his act together, responsible for giving the nation this charming but limited man as its President? She is boggled by the simultaneous intimacy and superficiality of public life - that the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Klein on the Fictional Laura Bush | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

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