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...much rationale behind it. “We started our sketch comedy group over 5 years ago and when we were coming up with names someone suggested Harvard Sailing Team as a name and that we wear argyle,” Brey wrote to us in an e-mail. (Are they calling us preppy...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boys Will Be Girls On "Harvard Sailing Team" | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...players to draw cards, which may instruct them to forfeit a letter to an opponent or permit them to spell a word backward or use a proper noun. "Celebrity wars of words could now take place on a new battleground," Mattel spokeswoman Sarah Allen wrote in an e-mail. "It's another part of the process of expanding the brand - it's an evolution." In other words, you might be feeling pretty smug about laying down "Jay-Z" (23 points), but if your opponent responds by playing his wife Beyoncé, that would be worth a mighty 64 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Has Scrabble Changed Its Rules? | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...though the original version of the game won't be touched, some serious Scrabblers are up in arms about the relaxed regulations in the spin-off game. "They're dumbing down a classic," Keith Churcher, chairman of a Scrabble club in the British city of Reading, told the Daily Mail newspaper. "Players like myself have spent decades memorizing words in the dictionary." On Twitter, a fan lamented, "Proper nouns allowed in new version of Scrabble?! Unbelievable ..." (See a video on Twitter poetry in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Has Scrabble Changed Its Rules? | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

Livstone’s resignation was announced in an internal e-mail in the middle of last month, but his resignation was not made public until last week when Bloomberg obtained a copy of the e-mail...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMC Bond Trader Departs | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...strikingly familiar. Mandile, the owner of a Massachusetts small business that manufactures high-precision screw-machine products, never nurtured political ambitions. But in March 2009, upset with the direction of the nascent Obama Administration, he registered on a website listing Tea Party events and began sending out e-mail blasts. The Worcester Tea Party, for whom Mandile serves as president, now counts more than 700 members on its distribution list, the vast majority of them political newcomers like Mandile himself. Groups like his have become the nexus of political disaffection, where deficit hawks, constitutional conservatives, federalists, birthers, senior citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Tea Party Movement Take the Next Step? | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

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