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...lead before the first quarter had ended. Brown scored in three of its first four possessions. Newly minted Harvard starting quarterback Liam O’Hagan was intercepted twice. While the defense tried to keep Brown tailback and eventual Ivy League Player of the Year Nick Hartigan in check, perennial Crimson-killer Jarret Schreck scorched the turf with huge pass plays from Bears quarterback Joe DiGiacomo.It was not pretty.“We certainly don’t necessarily, at that early stage in the game, do things the easy way,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said.But when...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COMEBACK OF THE YEAR: Bears Collapse For Second Straight Year | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

That rise may also reflect a deliberate public-education campaign, including public-service announcements on TV Land and Nick at Nite that are designed to convince families that it's worth some inconvenience or compromise to make meals together a priority. The enemies here are laziness and leniency: "We're talking about a contemporary style of parenting, particularly in the middle class, that is overindulgent of children," argues William Doherty, a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and author of The Intentional Family: Simple Rituals to Strengthen Family Ties. "It treats them as customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magic of the Family Meal | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...less thought and effort than writing a paper, in the end, both will help your grades, which is all any of us can really ask for.Not so Productive – Reading Us Weekly. I understand that the universe does indeed seem to be falling into shambles, what with Nick and Jessica being apart and Britney inexplicably continuing to procreate, but your interest isn’t helping anything.Productive – Taking a shower. I’m talking to you, kid who’s been living in Lamont for the past four days. Clean yourself...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore, | Title: Productive Procrastination | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...Payne, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuaron, Gurinder Chadha, Olivier Assayas, Walter Salles, Sylvain Chomet and Tom Tykwer.) Wouldn't it to lovely to bathe briefly in the radiance of Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellito, Willem Dafoe, Ben Gazzara, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Emily Mortimer, Nick Nolte, Natalie Portman, Miranda Richardson, Gena Rowlands, Ludivine Sagnier, Rufus Sewell and Leonor Watling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes's First Really Good Movie | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...Franken: God Spoke, by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus, is most interesting in revealing the similarities between standup comedy and campaigning: in both venues, the speaker needs to charm his listeners and stir them to applause (the manual version of voting). Franken is a serious guy with irresistible comic impulses. The tummler in him can?t understand why a top politico would advise him not to tell his favorite joke - one by Buddy Hackett, about a penis growing out of a man?s forehead - on the campaign trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Feast of Documentaries | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

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