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...although he eventually succumbed in the semifinals to Jonas Berg of Mississippi (7-6 (4), 6-1). In bracket two, Alexei Chijoff-Evans enjoyed an undefeated singles weekend; following Friday’s wins over Michael Land of Marist (6-1, 6-2) and Robert Rotaru of Louisville (7-6 (4), 6-4), the sophomore continued his fine form into the later rounds of the tournament, culminating in a final 7-5, 6-3 win over Boston College’s Thomas Nolan to clinch the bracket. Notable Crimson victories were also recorded by senior Michael Hayes and freshmen Davis...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top-Level Competition Challenges Resilient Crimson | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

...script, which Harris and Robert Knott have fashioned from Robert B. Parker's novel, Virgil and his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) have come to Appaloosa to cleanse it of the violence, intimidation and corruption of Bragg and his men. That they will achieve their goal is virtually a given: How many times, in a standard western, has the bad guy won? (About as many times as the richest man in town has also been the most sympathetic.) What's at issue is not the speed of Virgil's hand but the intelligence of this cowboy's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Appaloosa, an Old-School Western | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...upside of the ever churning online rumor mill is that it does justice to those subjects who have come by their bad reputations legitimately. "Every fraudster in the world thinks that we're here to help them out, but we're not," says Robert Russo, CEO of Defend My Name. For bad guys, the megaphone of the Web can be a very useful thing. For everybody else, it's nice to know that when the virtual community starts to whisper, you can now shout back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maligned Online? How to Retaliate Against Web Attacks | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...Also Rises” in middle school when I knew nothing of Hemingway other than his name (which seemed to carry serious cachet with my teachers). I hadn’t been able to get past the first 20 pages. I was repulsed by the way he characterized Robert Cohn, describing his “hard, Jewish, stubborn streak” and noting of a certain expression that it is how “his compatriot must have looked when he saw the promised land.” This is the worst of Hemingway: completely unnecessary, uncontrolled racism, plain...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Reading: The Sun Also Rises | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...shotgun marriage between Zimbabwe's government and opposition was never going to be easy, but it could falter at the first hurdle. Despite signing a power-sharing agreement on Monday, President Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival and new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have failed to agree on who will control which portfolios in a new cabinet. A meeting between the two men on Thursday aimed at resolving the issue broke up without agreement, as reports began to trickle in of violence breaking out in different parts of the country between supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF and the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bumpy Road for Zimbabwe's Power-Sharing Deal | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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