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...drew three of the six ejections. While Harvard played tight defense and only gave up six goals, Bucknell was even stingier. The Bison stripped the ball from the Crimson 13 times and held a shutout through the first half. “You have to throw it to the proper-colored hat,” Farrar said. “That is where experience will have the greatest positive impact.” Harvard got two goals from Snyder and one from freshman Kristina Bergquist. BROWN 12, HARVARD 3 Brown was able to capitalize on the inconsistent Crimson defense...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Water Polo Places Last at Easterns | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...There’s a good chance that being a public figure will mean having a public genome. With proper legal safeguards, personalized genomes will mean better medical care for most of us. But for many—especially the quasi-famous—one’s genes will be about as private as one’s pants...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel | Title: The Public Genome | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...family, struggled to eke out an existence on a small income from a second-hand bookshop and rented a bleak, two-room basement apartment in a Seoul neighborhood. Relatives already living in the U.S. invited the Chos to emigrate in 1984, but it took eight long years to obtain proper visas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family's Shame in Korea | 4/22/2007 | See Source »

Instead of having the TSA both regulate and operate airport security—a clear conflict of interest—we should leave the government to its proper oversight role and revert to the old system of private airport security provision. If the free market can protect Israel’s airports, where screeners are run by private companies, there’s no reason to believe it can’t guard American ones...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: If No One Flies, No One Dies | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...weave them into a sort of explanation. In the days after Columbine, for example, Harris and Klebold emerged as alienated misfits in the jock culture of their suburban high school. We learned about their morbid taste in music and their violent video games. Largely missing, though, was the proper frame around the picture: the extreme narcissism that licensed these boys, in their minds, to murder their teachers and classmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All About Him | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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