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...foul). Or what if his player fouls too late, while a guard has already started his shooting motion, giving him three foul shots and an easier chance to tie the game? What if the opponent actually sinks that three, offering an opportunity for a rare four-point play and, gasp, victory? Worry much, coach? "That's your job," says Braun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crying Foul During March Madness | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...like) misses the mark; shrill, self-righteous atheism may be sexy—oh so radical, sure to infuriate the parents—but it’s like kicking a dying horse. In retrospect, talk of a new 20th-century great awakening will be seen as the last gasp of a bygone era, as the Americans catch up with the godforsaken Europeans...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: A Post-Christian America | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

...making it clear that the event’s organizers did not believe that every student is, or should be, having sex. At the event itself, Madison tried to dispel the stigma associated with virginity, and emphasized good choices rather than promiscuity. If the idea of someone talking about (gasp) anal sex in public still bothers you, then I’m pleased to inform you that you don’t have to attend...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: What's wrong with sex-ed? | 3/11/2007 | See Source »

...website, which lists the provenance of all its bean blends, comes up with no results for coffee from East Timor. There are, however, plenty of mentions of Indonesian-based blends. There's a nasty rumor circulating in the East Timorese capital, Dili, that their beans may be masquerading as - gasp - Indonesian. This, they point out, is a travesty. East Timorese coffee beans became independent in 2002. Is there no end to the indignities small, newly free nations must endure? Luckily, though, Starbucks has redeemed itself by introducing a single-origin brand called Timor Lorosa'e, for sale in Australia. Given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East of, Uh, Timor | 3/10/2007 | See Source »

Don’t lie, you know you love that little mid-class catnap. And we all get pissed when section rolls around and we are forced to (gasp!) pay attention. Now imagine if you were in a class where such glorious oblivion was essentially impossible, as it is for Jenny Y. Wang ’10, the only student in Erving Research Professor of Chemistry William Klemperer’s Freshman Seminar “Seeing by Spectroscopy.” For those of us who never got past the elementary acronym ROYGBIV, Professor Klemperer says...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spectroposomething | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

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