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...aging moviegoer might cite King's Row, wherein cheerful Ronald Reagan lost his legs to a sadistic doctor. Me, I'd probably pick something like Boys Don't Cry, for which Hillary Swank won her first Oscar playing out a transgender tragedy on the flat and (as the camera saw them) fallow plains of Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleepwalking: A Jaunt Down Mangled Main Street | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

Researchers compared 1990s and 1980s data from death certificates, the U.S. Census, and a national mortality study and found that while Americans with 12 or more years of education saw increases in life expectancy throughout those decades, their peers with fewer years of schooling did not see an increase in the 1990s...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: News from the World of Science | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...Straus Director Henry Lie said that Bowen’s students and colleagues respected her for her honesty and directness. “Craigen was a good teacher because she was just very open with whatever she was thinking,” Lie said. “What you saw was what...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fogg Art Museum Deputy Director Bowen Dies of Cancer at 54 | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...admissions office is still planning on sending out a substantial number of non-athletic likelies before March 31. Fitzsimmons calls it an “unprecedented year” with many other colleges trying to poach students who could be lured away without an early Harvard admission.Yale, for one, saw applicants to its early pool rise by 36 percent, following both Harvard’s and Princeton’s decisions to end early admissions.The strategy is targeted to athletes in particular because they often face intense pressure from interested colleges to accept or decline an offer of admission...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Likely Letters on the Rise | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...attorney general campaign: Spitzer had been charged with improperly using his father's money to help finance his career. He denied the truth until the last possible moment, when he finally admitted that his dad made it possible for him to lend his campaign millions. "I looked over and saw this man - thin, in shirtsleeves with frayed cuffs, holding himself in the corner," Sheinkopf says. "I thought, This must be the loneliest man on the planet. And in fact, he turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Spitzer Destined to Fall? | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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