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...there and was sailing above the level he’d been sailing earlier. That was good to see.” Part of the division’s struggles came from the fact that the conditions weren’t as expected, and the lack of consistency by Mother Nature made things tough for the Crimson. “These conditions on paper were pretty good for us, pretty similar to what we sail on the Charles,” Kovacs said. “But there was lots of boat traffic, lots of chop, and there were some...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Wraps Up Fall Season on Mixed Note | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...honestly think I shouldn't have been punished, because the hugs were nothing inappropriate," Megan, 13, said in a Today show interview, her face expressionless, her brown hair pulled back, one hand clutching her mother's. "There wasn't bodies pressed up against each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Students Can't Hug | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...director of Wedding Crashers, reunite for a holiday comedy scripted by Dan Fogelman (one of the screenwriters of the Pixar movie Cars). Supporting Vaughn as the black sheep of the Claus clan and Paul Giamatti as Santa, the picture's got three Academy Award winners: Kathy Bates as their mother, Rachel Weisz as Fred's ill-used girlfriend and Kevin Spacey as a corporate type threatening to close down Santa's workshop. Giamatti and Miranda Richardson, who plays his wife, have been Oscar-nominated. Even Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, who has a bit as the North Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...Fred, even as they cheered everything the baby did: giving away his presents to needier kids, jumping down a chimney, chopping down a fir tree that his big brother happened to be perched in. Momma Claus (Kathy Bates) is the same kind of ego-destroyer as Steve Carell's mother is in Dan in Real Life. Her ragging on Fred, while Nick becomes a hero to children every December, leads Fred to spectacular resentment.? In a scene that's way too "ouch" for a PG comedy, grown-up Nick says, "You hate me," and grown-up Fred replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...would stand at one end and realize that we couldn't even see the other end," Ann Bender recalled. "And every one is some mother's child. I don't know what's harder, the young ones, 19, 20, 21, who barely had a chance to live, or the older guys, in their 30s and 40s, who leave wives and children behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Veterans' Day Vandals Touch a Nerve | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

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