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Jamestown spawned four centuries of myths. The wreck of a reinforcement expedition in Bermuda inspired Shakespeare's magic play, The Tempest (1611), complete with Caliban, a savage aboriginal; a passage in one of John Smith's many promotional tracts inspired a verse in Peggy Lee's song Fever (1958)--"Captain Smith and Pocahontas had a very mad affair." In reality, Jamestown was a hardheaded business proposition. The 104 English settlers who stayed when the ships went home--gentlemen, soldiers, privateers, artisans, laborers, boys (no women yet)--were late entrants in the New World sweepstakes. Spain had conquered Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Inventing America | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...Volpe has caught the marathon fever, contagious in a roomful of people who have tried their hand at the 26-mile race...

Author: By Khalid Abdalla, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sharing a Room, Sharing a Race | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...onlookers and television viewers caught glimpses of the children, aged four to eight, through gaps in the bus' curtains as they periodically waved at TV cameras. One girl in a ponytail could be seen caressing a Barbie doll behind the front window. Another child, reportedly suffering from a fever, was released shortly after noon and taken to Manila hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Hostages Released in Manila | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

...admit I had very specific expectations before move-in day. Those restless August nights gave way to fever dreams. A tweed-clad throng led the class of 2010 on an inaugural foxhunt through the Old Yard. I developed a close relationship with Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the manly Kenan Jr. Professor of Government with a heart of gold. We ate at a candlelit table; Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes made clear which fork was for which dish...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: To The Queen’s Head | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...room in search of beer, he is constantly stopped by fellow dissidents. Then, he drags four of his gray yet hairy buddies - one of them a former politician - on stage to sing an exile blues song, supposed to have been performed by a friend who is at home with fever. "What a hypochondriac! I told her, real artists die on stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For a Night, Dissidents Rekindle Their Fire | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

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