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After Gawker.com, the New York gossip rag with a peculiar Harvard fetish, noted the irony in a posting last week, the club removed Metullus and Campbell’s photo, leaving just the harebrained headline (alliteration is indeed hard to resist) and a brief note of thanks...
...done what any self-respecting institution would: cut its cereal funding. Citing surveys in which students requested “more organic and soy-based options,” Harvard University Dining Services has pulled the cereal of our youth from the shelves and replaced it with a rag-tag army of Mateys, Bursts and Zings. While there are those who heartily resist this cereal coup d’etat, an equally vociferous camp welcomes the morsel metamorphosis with open arms and an oversized spoon. This week, FM pits Chris Schonberger...
...Actually, he's a two-bowling-ball kind of guy. On a recent stay in New Mexico, where he was shooting scenes for an Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard, Nelly took along a strike ball, a spare ball, customized shoes, a wrist brace and a sweat rag. "I need all the equipment," he said, before ordering mozzarella sticks, French fries, ranch dressing and several ice-filled buckets of Corona from an alley waitress. "You never know when you'll get a chance to roll, and you should never waste a chance to have a good time...
...Constantine’s city reads like an epic. Constantinople had stood as the center of an empire that traced its lineage back to the Caesars. The army which broke into its gates was drawn from a dozen nations and was over a hundred thousand men strong. A rag-tag assortment of Venetians, Genoese, and Greeks, numbering barely seven thousand, defended the city against this horde, fighting bravely to thwart an outcome they knew to be inevitable. The last Christian Emperor died fighting, casting himself headlong into the oncoming enemy, a death that allowed the Byzantine empire to pass with...
...Iraqi forces can transform the situation. Military training involves imparting combat skills and organizational discipline to create efficient fighting units with high levels of morale and confidence. By measure of basic combat skills and organization, the Iraqi security forces may already be substantially superior to Moqtada Sadr's rag-tag Mehdi army, which is composed largely of unemployed young toughs from the Shiite urban ghettoes. The difference between them on the battlefield, however, is based on morale and confidence - in other words, on motivation. The Sadrists are motivated by a strong nationalist sentiment and emboldened by a religious faith both...