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...one’s respective teams. Watching the players compete in every match, piling up statistics over the course of the season, finding out little personal tidbits that will develop into intriguing features, occasionally getting thank-you notes from pleased parents—it simulates becoming the best of friends with someone who may not be able to recognize you in passing. This, coupled with the constant discussion about what has happened recently in Crimson sports and who really had the best game of the week, leads to a massive accumulation of knowledge about relative strangers.However, it gets worse?...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ALEX IN WONDERLAND: Battling That Creeping Feeling | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...stately room, engaging conversation, and most importantly: Man’s Best Friend curled up at your feet. Yes, section truly is a home away from home...

Author: By Benjamin K. Glaser, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bark-er Center Goes to the Dogs | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

Chicago businesswoman Valerie Jarrett has earned all sorts of nicknames as an aide to President-elect Barack Obama - from "First Friend" to "big sister" to "the other half of Obama's brain." As co-chair of his transition team, Jarrett has spent the past week denying rumors, parsing policy changes and insisting that she doesn't know where she'll end up in the new administration (although Beltway gossip suggests she may be appointed to Obama's seat in the Senate). Of her relationship with the 44th commander-in-chief, Jarrett says simply: "He is my dear friend. I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valerie Jarrett | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...like to get a pair of handcuffs slapped on after days of exhausting travel. The actors play their nemeses with energy and zest, tearing across fields to get the migrants and insulting them in a colorful language: "Don't you speak Spanish. You are not in Mexico now, my friend. Tell me who the boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mexico, a Theme Park for Border Crossers | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...would be 20 years before the Democrats had to hand power back; this time the incumbent President was Harry Truman, looking to ease the transition of his former friend and then President-elect Dwight Eisenhower. This one didn't go well either. Despite the fact that the two leaders had worked together closely during the final days of World War II and in the creation of NATO, the 1952 campaign had strained relations to the breaking point. Truman thought Eisenhower had sold his soul when he wouldn't denounce Joe McCarthy on the stump: "I thought he might make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When New President Meets Old, It's Not Always Pretty | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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