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...Mildred Natwick - and her stern working-class father, brought to dark life by the legendary Jason Robards in a role of angry middle-aged despair more often found in Eugene O'Neill plays. Addie's mother died after giving birth to her; and her father still carries the pain as well as a bitter unspoken resentment toward Addie. These keep him at tragic arm's length from any reminder of his late wife - including the Christmas trees she adored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Christmas Classic That Could | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...simple and the complex, the subjective and the objective intertwine. Regardless of their content, statements that the subjects believed lit up the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), a location in the brain best known for processing reward, emotion and taste. Equally "primitive" areas associated with taste, pain perception and disgust determined disbelief. "False propositions may actually disgust us," Harris writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Other students waiting in the snow said the delays also tested their patience, including Melissa M. Garcia ’09, who ducked into Au Bon Pain for shelter after the 4:45 shuttle’s initial 20-minute delay. An hour later, mocha latte in hand, the shuttle Garcia was expecting had yet to arrive...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blizzard Slows Shuttle Service | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...front-runner, being the only candidates with UC experience. A race is a race—anything can happen. In a place where anti-establishment is part of our middle name (Harvard Antiestablishmentliberalcesspool College), everyone supports the underdog (Red Sox), and everyone dances in their room naked to T-Pain whenever they get an A- (or is that just me?), didn’t the other candidates have a fighting chance? The candidates were definitely interesting. In fact, in the amount of views of the “On Harvard Time” interviews with the three tickets were...

Author: By Derek Flanzraich | Title: Why We Didn’t Care Any More | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...fall. The young and the healthy, yeah, you fall and end up with a sore shin and bruise on your bum, but your youth tends to protect you from more serious injuries.” There you have it: some good cover-up and a high pain tolerance should ward of the danger until your 50th reunion—just be sure to pack your shin guards when that time rolls around...

Author: By Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hey, Nurse Practitioner Donna Campbell! | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

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