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...with a certain amount of irony, given Cascarino's admission in his 2000 autobiography that he shouldn't have qualified to play for Ireland's national team from 1985 to 1999, since the grandfather he cited as proof of his Irish ancestry had adopted his mother. "It was no real big deal," he wrote of his own footballing sleight of hand. "No one could have been prouder than me to play for the Republic. I loved every minute of it.") (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer: France's Sweet Cheat Thierry Henry | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...matter how cutting edge and brilliant the use of solar panels sounded at first, they realized that once those panels broke, no one would be there to fix them. Higginbotham concludes, “Some of what we do academically doesn’t always apply to the real world...

Author: By Nicole Savdie, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Out of the Ivory Tower | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

Professor Diane L. Hendrix, who is teaching Making Media Across Cultures in the African American Department for the first time this year, notes the ability of students to apply academic theory in the real world. “Students take this class...and learn about the shifting media landscape from traditional TV broadcasters to the new media of the internet and the influence of YouTube and individual producers on culture,” she says. “They also learn what’s new in development theory and newer approaches to collaborative change in developing nations. Students bring...

Author: By Nicole Savdie, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Out of the Ivory Tower | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Crash a Hotel Room: Your Type-A friends pooled their money to spring for a real hotel room? How silly of them! Your frugal self can reap the comforts of their bed without the hit to your wallet...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Ways to Get a Bed in New Haven | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Sinirlioglu, The Lowest of the Low, sold more than 5 million copies and forced Germany to have a national discussion about its long-neglected Turkish minority. The dialogue led to a strengthening of the rights of temporary workers in the country and gave Germans of Turkish descent their first real foothold in politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackface Filmmaker Sparks a Race Debate in Germany | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

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