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...lead, Nyamekye crept into the box and redirected a Matt Hoff flick past the Bear’s keeper for the equalizer in the 83rd minute. Although Harvard ultimately lost in overtime, Nyamekye’s efforts impressed head coach John Kerr enough to prompt the coach to utilize him again as a forward late in the second half against Princeton. Finding itself in a similarly precarious situation, Nyamekye quickly turned a 2-1 Tiger advantage into a 3-2 Crimson win. Coolly collecting the ball on the wing, Nyamekye sent in a stellar cross to sophomore Andre?...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Force to be Reckoned With | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...Then prompt no more the follies you decry, / As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; / ‘Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence / Of rescu’d Nature, and reviving Sense; / To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, / For useful Mirth, and salutary Woe / Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, / And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Arts On Top...for the First Time? | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...exhausted enough to agree to a compromise. Khartoum has also come under pressure from China, Sudan's major international trade partner, to bring peace to Darfur - Beijing is mindful that activists have begun linking the killing in Darfur with the Beijing Olympics in the hope that bad publicity will prompt the Chinese to turn the screws on Sudan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awaiting Darfur Peace in Paris | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits - but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" - and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it's perfectly acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radiohead Says: Pay What You Want | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

...kicked out for being a teenager," Smith said. He and other kids would buy small televisions and build huts or underground hideaways in the mountains where they would watch movies. Their behavior - much of it typical for teenagers "in the world," as they call the non-FLDS realm - would prompt admonitions from elders like "If you are not worthy, you can't get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exiled Children of Utah | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

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