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“Under the Black Flag,” David Cordingly’s fantastic account of pirates and piracy, will not only keep any casual reader interested, but also provide its larger-than-life subject with a proper, scholarly history. This easy read will change anyone?...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Captain Morgan’ Is Not the Only Pirate Who Can Have Fun | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

President Bush avoided a face-to-face confrontation with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations last week, but elsewhere on Manhattan, Kennedy School of Government professor Ashton B. Carter confronted the controversial Tehran chief head-on. The encounter left some observers hopeful that the U.S. could strike up...

Author: By Yelena S. Mironova, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: K-School Professor Confronts Iran Pres. | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

The course description for Dr. Linda Schlossberg’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1122: “The Romance: From Jane Austen to Chick Lit” promises “‘sensation,’ and titillation; the commodification of desire; Harlequins.” The...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Odd Man Out | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

"We were lower-middle-class oiks," Idle says of himself and most of the other Pythons, noting that only Cleese and Palin had gone to posh public (private) schools. Yet however scraped his circumstances or mean his surroundings, young Eric was not a pouter; he always looked on the bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pythonostalgia! | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

But that's not all: by pushing a button on the Gastrovac that breaks the vacuum, the device essentially turns the food into a sponge, sucking the poaching liquid into the pores where oxygen used to be. The result is a deep, penetrating flavor, without the need for a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoring A Vacuum | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

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