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...Crimson was lucky to get the monkey off its back and break its recent slide when it did—at home against measly Brown. To his credit, coach Tommy Amaker made a good call in switching to a more pressing defense in the second half, and he said he didn’t panic at halftime...
...more than 80 years, Dayton, Tenn., has had a monkey on its back. That monkey is the English naturalist Charles Darwin, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated on Feb. 12 in hundreds of cities around the world. Darwin's treatise On the Origin of Species was instrumental to the town's famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted noted trial lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other in a fight to determine whether evolution should be taught in Tennessee public schools. (Read TIME's original 1925 story on the Scopes "monkey trial...
...tacos with a fork. 2. I was fat in middle school. The wake of that horror has yet to subside. 3. I keep forgetting that Barack Obama is our President. (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years.) 4. I have been pooped on by a monkey. 5. I am addicted to the ass-slap dance move. Sometimes I don't even notice I'm doing it. 6. When I finally told my now fiancé that I liked him (as in, liked him liked him), I drunkenly gave him the Anchorman line, "I want...
...fallacy, says one Wall Street veteran I talked to, is that anyone who occupies one of those golden chairs - global equities, say, or convertible bonds - is almost guaranteed to bring in business and get paid for it. "I could put a monkey in that chair and get a certain level of business," he said. With 46,000 financial jobs having been lost in New York City already, demand is falling, so the risk of losing talent to rivals is declining. The bigger question that should be asked of these big earners, says the Wall Street vet, is this: What...
...This season, with some tough road wins at UNH, Dartmouth, and of course, over then-No. 24 Boston College, the road monkey is off the team’s proverbial back...