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Harrington's recent success has come with an asterisk. Tiger Woods was absent with a knee injury during Harrington's last two major wins, and many now question whether the Irish player's workmanlike skill can challenge golf's chosen one. Harrington carries no false hope. "When Tiger's having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Padraig Harrington: The Grinder | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Public boarding schools are hardly a new concept. Institutions in Indiana and Pennsylvania took in the children of dead Civil War veterans, and Louisiana and Illinois offered residential programs for gifted students in the 1980s. But publicly financing boarding schools for inner-city kids is a very different proposition. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Public Boarding Schools Teach Us | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

The Brits have a lot to boast about when it comes to their contribution to the definitive catalog of 80s tunes. With bands like Echo and the Bunnymen, Depeche Mode, and the Cure, it’s pretty obvious why time and again fledgling rock groups have appropriated the musical...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: White Lies | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

But The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer, if not an especially disciplined one. Littell's great insight is into the damage that genocide does to those who perpetrate it. The Nazi bureaucracy has sold Max and his colleagues on mass murder as a hygienic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Soldier | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

The financial situation should not be cause for objection to the reinstatement of the transfer program. New transfer students will pay tuition while adding a very limited marginal cost to the College’s budget, requiring no new professors and being placed into existing advising programs. Although the addition...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Transfers: Do Not Go Gentle | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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