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Although Gemmell proved her dominance during just her first year as a Crimson athlete, it took much longer for her counterpart, Colin West, to reach the same point. Four years longer, in fact...

Author: By Brian A. Campos and Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Sweeps National Titles | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...that point, Dan Eshet and Yawetz, Avigail’s parents, entered Kelly’s life. The couple was looking for another person to help look after Avigail, and when they advertised, Finley answered...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coach Helps Kid, Finds New Home | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...Basketball is a game,” Finley said. “The point of the game is to help the girls on the team be the best people they...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coach Helps Kid, Finds New Home | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...Most damaging, perhaps, was Graf's habit of verbal abuse. The language of naval command is supposed to be crisp and to the point. Orders pertaining to speed, direction and a host of other decisions needed to guide a warship are repeated back and forth among those on the bridge to reduce the chance of error. There's remarkably little conversation on the bridge at most times; swearing is extremely rare. (Belowdecks, among enlisted personnel, it is more common.) But according to 29 of 36 members of the cruiser's crew questioned by Navy investigators - whose names were redacted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexism and the Navy's Female Captain Bligh | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...good chunk of Courage and Consequence is taken up by the Joseph Wilson affair and the outing of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent - an allotment that is justified from Rove's point of view, since he spent a good chunk of the Bush Administration fighting off an indictment in the case. In July 2003, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times disputing Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger. There was some exaggeration involved, but the bottom line was accurate. There was no uranium deal; Saddam didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karl Rove's Memoir: Act of Vengeance | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

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