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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Out of Doors | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...given to lower-income students, it’s hard to turn down some of the world-class students who apply to Harvard, the admissions dean argues. And whereas other schools with lower yields can afford to admit a larger chunk than they expect to matriculate, Harvard has to narrow things down early, leaving it less room to work with...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Classy Affair | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

Fires that occur in the zone where suburban sprawl abuts rugged wild lands are known as intermix fires, and they are a fire fighter's nightmare. Vastly complicating the ability to protect property and lives are nonnatural hazards like narrow, twisting roads that dead-end in blind canyons or houses with cedar-shake roofs and logs stacked beside the kitchen door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A State In Flames | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...somehow, by a narrow margin, the film doesn't quite make it. Potter recolored his work a little more sunnily, and it is, perhaps, too compressed; it needs TV's room to digress. And the director, Keith Gordon, doesn't really recapture '50s Los Angeles, where Potter reset his flashbacks. They feel perfunctory (and underbudgeted). Finally, Robert Downey Jr., who works hard as Dark, just doesn't have the weight, age and rage Michael Gambon brought to the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Tone Deaf | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

Pell has managed to narrow her focus down to just two sports at Harvard. In the fall, she devotes her time to field hockey. Nestled at 11-4, the Crimson has only one Ivy loss thus far, and Pell is quite enthusiastic about the team’s success...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: One Pell of a Hockey Player | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

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