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Probably not. But this is the name of the game in the Browniverse: at its most basic level the Brownian fantasy is that coincidences aren't just chance, and things are not just things: they mean something. Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is after all a symbologist (following a branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

You already knew all this, of course. It happened just last year, and in recent days the news media have engaged in an orgy of commemoration and explanation of the Lehman collapse and its aftermath. So here's the $64 trillion question: What, if anything, have we learned from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Lessons of the Lehman Brothers Collapse | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Therefore, although there are lessons to be learned going forward, calls to drastically scale back risk-taking in the future are unfounded. This would prevent Harvard from recovering from its current dire straits and stunt our growth prospects. HMC should instead look to manage money mindfully, attaining good enough returns...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Minus $11 Billion | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Described by co-founder Madison O. Klein ’11 as “a club for the ridiculously good looking and extraordinarily intelligent, and for those who are of lion-hearted courageousness—and modest,” The Board Riders at Harvard (BRAH) is intent on...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Surf’s Up, Brah! | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

But Hackbart, a paralegal who learned about court rulings on vulgar language in a communications-law class, says police should not be able to punish people by issuing citations they know to be unconstitutional. Elledge "shouldn't be allowed to conduct himself like that with no repercussions," he says. "Does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

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