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...Comedy for a Cause” last year? TY: I tried to do it last year and then I…I don’t know what happened last year so I’m really glad they asked me to perform again. RR: Why do you prefer college campuses? TY: College students have a certain energy that doesn’t happen anywhere else. It’s called being drunk…no that happens everywhere. There’s a certain unjaded optimism.RR: Conan O’Brien graduated from Harvard in 1985…what...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comedians for a Cause | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...Iran's Caesarean Section Craze Well-accustomed to elective surgery, Iranian women are choosing C-sections at such a high rate that it's a challenge now to find a doctor who will perform a "medieval" vaginal birth

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tony Blair Is Right About the Veil | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...third and most colorful is his own work. "I bought this frame and there were three spaces, so I put my own drawing in," the genial Kawada explains. It's a thumb-sized symbol of cultural exchange, and one that is amplified when five Sydney Symphony musicians proceed to perform a sprightly version of Percy Grainger's Walking June in Kawada's wood-paneled lounge. The occasion is a send-off for the orchestra on its imminent Japanese tour?part of the 2006 Year of Exchange between the two countries?and Kawada waxes lyrical on the subject. "Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harmonic Convergence | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...deed goes unpunished. Take the case of socially responsible investing (SRI). There are 79 stock funds that practice the style, which typically involves screening companies for stellar environmental and labor practices while shirking sin sectors like tobacco, booze and gambling. Sounds good, right? Yet SRI funds are often mediocre performers, partly because those sin stocks do rack up profits. Through September, the do-good funds averaged a 6.26% return, trailing the average stock fund by 0.6%, according to the research firm Morningstar. "Over time, SRI funds perform about the same as non-SRI ones," says Lloyd Kurtz, a senior portfolio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Investing: Good, but Better | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...Last week against Cornell, we were in pass coverage just as much, but we really didn’t perform,” said Dorris of the linebacking core’s performance against Lafayette. “We had a really good week of practice. It just clicked today...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Predators, Preyed | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

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