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While Kylie didn’t choose her father’s sports path, she certainly had competitive lacrosse in her blood. Katey, who is Mike’s sister, was a lacrosse star in college at New Hampshire. She was a four-year letterwinner and captain of both the hockey and lacrosse teams, helping both teams to championships during her time there...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Sports Enhanced By Two Stones | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

...orchestra aficionados shuffled its way into Boston’s Symphony Hall, five minutes late and snatching last-minute snacks and champagne. It took conductor James Levine bursting through the upstage door to properly get their attention. With a red face and a shock of gray hair, the elated four-year Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) veteran hitched up one pant leg, propped himself up on a stool, and struck up a promising beginning to the Orchestra’s 127th season...

Author: By Amanda C. Lynch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston Symphony Orchestra Regales with Ravel | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

...adapts Chinese author Eileen Chang’s eponymous short story with exquisite artistic balance, but the film’s visual density simply cannot compensate for its paucity elsewhere. Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Hong Kong during World War II, the film spans the four-year attempt of a Chinese student drama group to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Asian cinema icon Tony Leung), using virginal Wong Jiazhi (newcomer Tang Wei) as a lure. Wong poses as a well-bred aristocratic wife, Ms. Mak, and employs her acting abilities and womanly wiles to delicately tempt...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lust, Caution | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...funds are spent. At a Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, senators considered measures including the repeal of university endowments’ tax-exempt status and mandating minimum yearly payouts to help lower tuition costs. The discussion at last week’s hearing focused on the spectacular growth of university endowments, which collectively increased by 17.7 percent to dollars in fiscal year 2006, according to testimony at the hearing. Average tuition for four-year colleges in the United States, meanwhile, has risen 35 percent since 2002, according to the College Board. Several proponents of greater regulation cited Harvard...

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Rejects Endowment Regulation | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

...could be Baghdad; it is Riyadh. The Kingdom shifts the current jihad one country south, from Iraq to Saudi Arabia. The movie also rouges the image of Americans in Islamic countries. Instead of being trapped in a four-year (and counting) quagmire, they come into town, clean things up and get out. What many thought would be the 2003 reality of a U.S. fighting force in Iraq has become a film fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Win the War on Terror! | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

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