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...awesome Randy Barbour—gives Cornell a devastating duo running the ball. Not to mention signal caller Nathan Ford, a solid passer who moonlights as the baseball team’s second baseman. I don’t know if I’d do it with a gun to my head, but it’s not as if making Ivy League football picks exactly comes with a whole lot of repercussions. What the hell.Prediction: Cornell 28, Yale 27DARTMOUTH (0-1) VS. NO. 8 NEW HAMPSHIRE (3-0)The good news for Dartmouth: Freshman Foley Schmidt...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: 2008 Race For The Ivy Title | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...care reform and strongly endorsed me as the only candidate in this race who is standing up for working, middle-class families who need health care now." Also, always keep talking until the moderator is forced to stop you with a foghorn blast or by reaching for an elephant gun under the desk. Airtime is gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There They Go Again | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Army's sometimes counterproductive methods: "By midmorning, Sassaman's battalion had searched seventy homes in Abu Shakur and questioned dozens of men, but netted not a single gun nor a single suspect. If you multiplied the raid on Abu Shakur a thousand times, it was not difficult to conclude that the war was being lost: however many Iraqis opposed them before the Americans came into the village, dozens and dozens more did by the time they left. The Americans were making enemies faster than they could kill them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forever War | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...riding and drinking and musing and shooting - activities that don't demand talk. Our heroes are respecters of each other's privacy; they figure no man is likely to reveal all of himself, perhaps even to himself. Let his ethics, if he has any, do the talking before his gun does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Appaloosa, an Old-School Western | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

People who blinked harder than others and registered a heightened response to threat on the conductivity test tended to support the death penalty and military spending. People with a mellower startle response were more likely to support abortion rights and gun control. The study also looked at several broader political tendencies, including compromise (the willingness to yield to a middle-ground solution) and obedience (the tendency to follow a set path), and found that people who were more sensitive to threat were less amenable to the former and more inclined toward the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Startle Reflex: Key to Your Politics | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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