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...assuming you live until age 13) are greater than those of getting into Harvard or Yale. Said another way, you’re more likely to live to attend your 70th college reunion than you are to be admitted to either school in the first place...

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Odds | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

...from kidnapping to murder rap, Forsythe kept his hold on the viewers' belief and rooting interest. He knew that his job was to make the impossible sound plausible, and that not every actor has to be Brando. The craft can be sedative as well as stimulant. There's a place for the traditional performer - the audience's ordinary extraordinary surrogate, the one who explains to them the awful thing that just happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

Despite starting the year 0-11, Harvard does seem to be firing on all cylinders at the opportune time. Sitting in second place in the Hay division with four conference contests remaining, the Crimson has a very good chance at a playoff spot and perhaps even a division crown. While the squad may have began the year on uncertain ground, the men’s volleyball team is now certain that it controls its own destiny...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Win Streak Hits Three | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

Today, after thousands of miles traveled and months of anticipation since the disappointing end to last year’s Ivy season—Harvard finished a game out of first place in its division and missed the chance to play in the Ivy League Championship Series—the Crimson women are ready to prove that they belong back at the top of Ancient Eight softball...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: League Play Begins Today | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

Even without new U.N. measures in place, one area where the U.S. has been successful in imposing its unilateral sanctions is in the financial sector, where it uses the leverage of threatened exclusion from the American financial system to press Dubai's financial services industry into observing U.S. curbs. Iranians in Dubai say they find it increasingly difficult to get credit, even for workaday business dealings. "We have to pay full amounts to the supplier in order to ship the goods to us," says Morteza Masoumzadeh, deputy executive director of the Iranian Business Council in Dubai, whose shipping company focuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Pressure Iran, the U.S. Leans on Dubai | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

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