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...hoping to bring out the Ithaca supporters for Harvard for that one.”But first comes the Head of the Charles, where the Crimson will have its chance to size up the competition and also to gauge where it stands this season.Although there is usually just a modest number of spectators at the early-morning races, the Head of the Charles draws the biggest crowd of the season, adding to the excitement of the first big race.“It’s such a spectacle,” Young said. “It?...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HEAD OF THE CHARLES '07: Homeward Found | 10/20/2007 | See Source »

...lead our little lives - running errands, tending the kids, making our livings. We endure our modest setbacks - we're late getting home, when we get there we're not as emotionally attentive as we might be - and our minor triumphs - the children perform endearingly at the school concert. But this we almost never acknowledge that tragedy of the kind that can forever shatter our middle class contentment is ever and always only a heartbeat, a hair's breadth, away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Domestic Tragedies: Reservation Road and Things We Lost in the Fire | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...Modest Mouse “Little Motel” Dir. Justin Francis Modest Mouse’s previous ventures into the realm of the visual have included decking out frontman Isaac Brock as a crow and a pop-up-book version of a slaughterhouse. “Little Motel” is crazy in a different way—crazy dramatic, crazy tedious, and crazy overdone. This time-reversed piece is nothing new for the chronologically warped world of music videos. It depicts a night in the life of a woman who, after taking her motionless child from his hospital...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Modest Mouse, "Little Motel" | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...part to such stars as Laurence Dallaglio, Paul Sackey and Jason Robinson (sons, respectively, of Italian, Jamaican and Ghanaian immigrants). Expect that diversity to grow: As television helps fuel rugby's popularity from the ground up, a rising number of the nation's best players will emerge from more modest milieus than Eton, Harrow and the school that gave the game its name, as kids from all social background embrace a game that "looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rugby Hits the Big Time | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...Bandhavgarh: Visitors who want to see tigers are often disappointed at other reserves - where the big cats are spread over a vast area - but never at Bandhavgarh, a rugged forest in the center of the country. The park's modest size means that it is likely to have the highest density of tigers of any Indian park (the population is estimated at around 50), and it buzzes every morning and evening with tourist jeeps racing toward the spot where the latest tiger sighting has been made. There's not a lot of other wildlife to see in Bandhavgarh, but stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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