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...might be expected, American football is nowhere near as popular as in the United States. Games attract only a couple hundred fans...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Captain Brings Football to Spain | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...large), have cast a dark shadow over the public image of both Elizabeth and John. And a forthcoming book, The Politician, by former Edwards aide Andrew Young, is said to be even more reputation-shattering. Is it that John is simply too much of a biohazard to be near right now? Or is Elizabeth just tired of all the tabloid revelations? People sources suggest that even three years after she discovered the affair, Elizabeth never quite found a way to trust John again and checked up on him constantly, a strain that proved too much for both of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Can't Celebrate the Edwards Split | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

Addressing a handful of spectators who had gathered near Central Square, Decker called repeatedly for reform of jobs statewide and for more affordable housing to be available in Massachusetts...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Decker Seeks State Senate Seat | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...voters in Washington put themselves near the forefront of the budding medical-marijuana movement when they voted nearly 7 to 3 for doctor-prescribed dope - a greater majority than those in any of the other eight statewide ballot initiatives that have passed around the country. (Watch a video about medical-marijuana home delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medical Marijuana Finally Heads for D.C. | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...estimated 1.1 million people died at the camp - the vast majority of them Jews from occupied Europe. Most were killed in gas chambers. They accounted for about one-sixth of all the Jews exterminated during the Holocaust. Speaking to some 1,500 people gathered in a tent near one of the railroad tracks used to bring prisoners to the camp, Netanyahu described the genocide as "the greatest crime of humanity" and "the greatest tragedy in Jewish history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auschwitz 65 Years Later: One Survivor Remembers | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

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