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...Probably not. But this is the name of the game in the Browniverse: at its most basic level the Brownian fantasy is that coincidences aren't just chance, and things are not just things: they mean something. Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is after all a symbologist (following a branch of human intellectual inquiry that - it cannot be stated enough times - doesn't exist, at Harvard or anywhere else). Beneath his learned, oddly asexual caress, objects come to life and become symbols. A V isn't just a V, it's a chalice, a symbol of the eternal feminine. Chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...Assign various Jenga pieces with tasks such as: chug one beer, take one shot, give a beer, finish your drink, waterfall, etc. Play by the regular rules of Jenga, but when a player chooses a piece with a task on it, he or she must complete that task. The game ends when the tower collapses and the loser must finish his or her drink and choose three of the tasks to complete...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill and Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Drinky Drink | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Unsurprisingly, the Stanford coaching staff kept quiet about the game...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Loses Top Recruit to Injury | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...Eastern European origin. Quietly, the chopper disgorges a team of elite commandos, arguably the best in the world, who quickly subdue the crew and remove weapons unlisted on the ship’s manifest. This may be familiar as the opening mission of a widely popular modern combat video game, featuring Britain’s elite Special Air Service. Yet this scene may have actually happened recently —with Israeli troops...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Eyeing Israeli Intervention | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...player in the nation, Yevginya Stupak of East Tennessee State University, 6-1, 6-0. In the semifinals, Cao defeated top-seeded and No. 36 Michaela Kissel of Marshall, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. “They were difficult matches, but I went out to play my game and came away with a win,” Cao said. On her side of the draw, Tachibana beat Erin Clark of Richmond, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, Elizabeta Zaylsiva of Winthrop, 6-2, 6-4, and Kateryna Yergina of Virginia Commonwealth University, 7-5, 3-4, ret. Though...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Young Talent Finds Early-Season Success | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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