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...English language is rough on those who are determined to hold on to their money. If your style is to limit your bank withdrawals, get ready to be labeled parsimonious, penny-pinching, miserly, niggardly or cheap: in short, a skinflint. In recent decades, though, there have been fewer and fewer people in those categories. Americans have been more likely to reach for their credit cards, or to scramble to sign new mortgages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...true that the e-mails reveal CRU climate scientists were dismissive of skeptics, often in harsh terms, but that's not unusual for scientists. Science is a rough arena, as anyone who has ever survived a doctoral examination knows, and scientists aren't shy about attacking ideas they believe are wrong - especially in private communication. Still, Jones et al. could have been more open and accepting of their critics, and if it turns out that e-mails were deleted in response to the Freedom of Information request for data, heads should roll. (Jones maintains that no e-mails or documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has 'Climategate' Been Overblown? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...given the fact that his politics do little to differentiate him from his Democratic rivals, it is his personal attributes that make him stand out most to us. Specifically, we are impressed with Capuano’s past as a politician who gets things done. Since learning politics in rough-and-tumble Somerville—where he served as the city’s mayor—he has represented Massachusetts’s Eighth Congressional District, which includes Harvard, for over a decade...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Capuano for Senate | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

TIME Beijing correspondent Austin Ramzy has provided a rough translation of the voiceover from the video's pivotal climax, starting around the moment when 3-D Elin slaps 3-D Tiger across the face and then chases after his car like Robert Patrick in Terminator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger's Crash, the Chinese Reenactment | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Diamond aficionados will notice that DiPasquale is in considerably better shape than he was in the first issue, though he’s just as hairy. And while in the sample issue there are only two photos of him—one rugged and unshaven (“Rough Diamond”) and one clean (“Polished Up”)—those shots of his flaccid penis are as hot as ever...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It’s baaaack! Harvard Porn Mag Hits the (Virtual) Newsstands | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

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