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There have been cameras pointed at war zones since 1855, when the British photographer Roger Fenton toted his tripod and glass-plate negatives to the scenes of the Crimean War. A few years later, Matthew Brady and his team made their unprecedented record of battlefield deaths and civilian devastation in the Civil War. For most of us, our memories of war in the 20th century are from an image bank of photographs, from D-day to Korea and Vietnam--pictures that not only recorded those wars but also informed the way people felt about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window On the War in Afghanistan | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Junior defensive back Emani Fenton and sophomore Rashad Campbell both had a series of pass breakups against Yale. Fenton notched five, while Campbell knocked down seven...

Author: By Christen B. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Clash with Cornell Defense Tomorrow | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Travelers like the erudite British naturalist Redmond O'Hanlon used to come to these parts in search of untouched rainforest and unadulterated indigenous life. His Into the Heart of Borneo recounts a 1983 attempt, with poet pal James Fenton, to "rediscover" the Borneo rhinoceros near Sarawak's mountainous border with Indonesia. O'Hanlon describes wild dance parties at Dayak longhouses, fueled by gallons of tuak, a potent milky rice wine, and enthuses about jaw-dropping tangles of tropical growth along the Rajang and its watery veins, some walled in by lush, 200-ft.-high (60 m) tree canopies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ebb and Flow in Borneo | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...journey on, appropriately, a traveling showboat in the South. Captain Andy Hawks (Trent Mills) directs the traveling troupe while his petulant wife, Parthy Ann (Shannon Martinous), keeps his compulsion and whims in check. Their 18-year-old daughter, Magnolia (Elizabeth Ann Berg), falls in love with Gaylord Ravenal (Adam Fenton Goddu), a handsome but incurable gambler who joins their troupe after misfortune strikes the company’s two leads. As the showboat continues to travel, Magnolia and Gaylord gain prominence as the two new stars and they eventually wed. After the couple leaves the boat, Gaylord?...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BCT's 'Showboat' Quite a Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...left and right, really dominating the entire time.” Halpern scored the first two goals of the game, and freshman Katie Doherty put another tally on the scoreboard with 17:41 left in the first half, putting Harvard up, 3-0. Minutes later, Holy Cross midfielder Megan Fenton put up a goal for the Crusaders, only to be answered by another pair of Halpern goals, bringing the score to 5-1. But Holy Cross didn’t surrender, and managed to put up three goals in the final three minutes of the half, tightening the score...

Author: By Katie Kuzma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Kicks Off With Victory | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

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