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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With 6:46 remaining in the game, Winters found senior wideout Matt Luft open deep downfield. The pair connected for a 41-yard touchdown pass to put Harvard on the board...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Stages Fourth-Quarter Rally, Beats Yale 14-10 in 126th Playing of The Game | 11/21/2009 | See Source »

...uniquely omniscient first-person narrator, Cal recounts his family’s story, including scenes and thoughts that he could not possibly know, adding his own opinions, musings, and questions. Describing his father’s conception, Cal poses, “Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates. Wouldn’t I also sneak up on a girl pretending to be asleep?” Cal is able to wax lyrical about...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eugenides’ Transitive Epic | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Admittedly, I would rather have these rules than no rules, but the episode is a good reminder of how difficult it can be to pass effective financial regulation, even for something as minor and clearly exploitative as overdraft protection services. It doesn’t make you optimistic about ever setting good rules on credit cards, whose effect on our society is far more pernicious. Credit-card regulation passed last spring was a good start but ultimately does little more than limit banks’ ability to market credit cards to students and require them to warn you before they...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: House of Cards | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...prepping for.   Dream: You’re in a strange land surrounded by books and drool, and guards are laughing at you as the sun rises. Oh...wait...damn...again? Predictions: You will subsist for the next six hours on coffee.  You will pass out briefly in a random, uncomfortable locale that is NOT your or anyone else’s bed, most likely in lecture. You will subsist for the following six hours on Red Bull. Rinse. Repeat.   Dream: You’re sitting around a dinner table, eating...

Author: By NORA A. TUFANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Dream Come True? | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...home of a monk who composed the music for the Swiss national anthem. The path winds upwards past fields filled with wildflowers and butterflies, sloping steeply to the placid waters of the lake. Then it emerges from the woodland, and a panorama unfolds of lofty peaks around the Gotthard Pass. The only sounds are of wind, running water and birdsong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Pleasure Path | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

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