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...intensity of the game only increased from there, as Harvard played through a long stretch of penalty kill in the first half of the period. But it was at even strength that Yale found a way to tie the game...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Edges Out Bulldogs | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...dream come true," the Cat tells Coraline. "But it's not." He's right. In the deeply, darkly conservative spirit of most fairy tales, which are not adventures but horror stories, Coraline will find that all those sweets and sweet words are simply fattening her up for the kill, like Gretel in the gingerbread house. And Other Mother is worse than a Stepford mom. She's... well, we'll just say she's very bad, and has been so for a very long time. Almost as nefarious as her plans for her new recruit is the poison she pours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chilly World of Coraline | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...year-old freshman at Boston University, DuBois - armed with a placard inscribed with the words "NO MORE" - stood before a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Boston for 41 hours as a way to commemorate the 41 bullets New York City policemen used to kill unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joshua DuBois: Obama's Pastor-in-Chief | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

Writing a memoir based on the memories of an entire childhood filled with the savagery of war would certainly be difficult enough. Doing so after having been trained as a tiny soldier to kill Arabs and Muslims, or jallabas, before even reaching puberty, would prove to be an impossible task for some. Stories of the Lost Boys of Sudan - stolen from their homes and sometimes coaxed by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) to fight a war the children had little understanding of - have emerged bit by bit since the end of the civil war that raged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sudanese Lost Boy, Found | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...their community of survivors to grow. The Bielski brothers—soon called “The Bielski Otriad” by their companions—are burdened with the responsibility of sheltering, feeding, and protecting all of the people. Zus and Tuvia struggle with a troubling paradox: Is killing inherently a part of surviving? Should they kill at all? To what end? Liev Schreiber’s performance as the revenge-obsessed Zus is a compelling portrayal of a man unable to let go of his desire to seek revenge on the Nazis, even when it is necessary...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Defiance | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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