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...their game to score well.”When golfers imagine the sand hills of North Carolina, the fabled U.S. Open venue Pinehurst usually springs into their minds first. Yet, architect Donald Ross created another golfing gem in the 6515-yard Mid Pines Golf Club, whose relatively shorter length still demands players to hit a full complement of shots to get through eighteen holes at par.A tweaked back forced Shore to withdraw from the tournament before its start, but junior John Christensen, who originally intended to play as an individual, rounded out the usual five-man tournament roster in Shore?...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Golf Takes Fourth in North Carolina | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

...many hurtful barbs in the piece, the attack is not noteworthy. But when commenters on the post slammed the author for using terms like “bimbo” and “stereotypical blond” as well as for the lisp comment, CLS responded at length to the former but completely ignored the latter. God forbid someone think him a sexist; no big deal if he slurs stutterers. CLS opens his post with the line, “There are two rampant pack of vultures in modern society. One group is politicians and the other...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly | Title: Speaking of Ad Hominem… | 9/11/2007 | See Source »

...actors declaim in bombastic gestures, the canned music hits overly ominous chords, and the printed intertitles often read like the mutterings of obsession ("Force!" "Must escape!" "What if???"). If this sounds off-putting, jump back on, because Maddin's films - from Tales of the Gimli Hospital, his first full-length feature 20 years ago, to last year's silent feature Brand Upon the Brain!, and especially his magnificent 6-min. The Heart of the World, commissioned by TIFF in 2000 - are headlong, heartfelt, weirdly sexy and a hoot. I don't want to diminish his artistic achievement, but the Maddin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Weird Canadian Geniuses at Toronto | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

...Hartford's fields, because Harvard plays on grass in Allston. "We didn't keep the ball, we couldn't settle it, but we have to deal with that," Leone said. "We really just couldn't get into a flow because we didn't keep the ball for any length of time." HARVARD 1, HARTFORD 1 The team wasted no time in showing off its new class of recruits, as freshman Katherine Kuzma scored the team's goal in a 1-1 tie in the season opener against tournament host Hartford on Friday night. Late in the game, the Crimson found...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Soccer Digs Holes in Hartford | 9/3/2007 | See Source »

...their extended tours in Iraq, and the room became more tense. Hemming said there were pros and cons to the rotation. The pros, he said, were that Marines could familiarize themselves with the battlefield thanks to the extra days they serve on it. The cons stemmed from the length of the troops' five-month stateside break between deployments. Speaking more quickly out of what seemed nervous determination, Hemming said, "Our training at home has been very limited." The short stays were particularly hard on families, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Gets a New Kind of Iraq Briefing | 9/3/2007 | See Source »

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