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...Meanwhile, the percentage of female admits fell by about one percent to 50.5 percent, and the percentage of international students rose slightly, from 8.7 to 9.1 percent...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of 2011 Admits Beat Lowest Odds | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...Annie Get Your Gun landed Hutton on the Apr. 24, 1950, cover of TIME. Back then she seemed on top of the world, and The Greatest Show on Earth was still to come. But soon she hit the Down button, and her stock fell as fast as it rose. The DeMille circus spectacular was her last major movie. She took a rodeo to Broadway (for three weeks), headlined the first big original musical for television (some considered it a fiasco) and in 1959 fronted a one-season sitcom (where her domineering attitude had other actors referring to her as Nero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Betty Got Frank | 3/31/2007 | See Source »

...Preternaturally restless, Betty left home at 15 and came to Manhattan, hoping to be noticed by people who could get her into show business. By 17, she had hooked up with Vincent Lopez' decidedly demure band, to which she immediately brought verve and volume. One night when impresario Billy Rose was in the audience, did her madcap routine, picking up the elfin Lopez and carrying him about. That stunt earned her roles in the Broadway musicals Two for the Show and Panama Hattie, where, she later said, her one number was filched by star Ethel Merman on opening night. Betty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Betty Got Frank | 3/31/2007 | See Source »

Only last spring, Skocpol’s candidacy seemed promising when she rose to the top of Interim President Derek C. Bok’s list of potential candidates to lead Harvard’s flagship school, according to the sources. But when Bok floated Skocpol’s candidacy among faculty members and top administrators, he encountered strong resistance that forced him to reconsider, the individuals said...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez and Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: News Analysis: Behind the Scenes, Skepticism Over Skocpol's Rise | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

With the bunker's heavy metal lid dragged to one side, dank musty air rose up from the entrance, the forbidding gloom of the narrow steel-lined shaft below unbroken by the bright sunlight. It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer even under the pounding of Israeli air and ground operations. But any sense of exhilaration at the achievement was dampened by the nagging anxiety of claustrophobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Hizballah's Hidden Bunkers | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

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