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...awarded a penalty kick after the Friars were whistled for a foul inside the box. The Crimson turned to its star, reigning Ivy League Player of the Week, Akpan, who placed the ball into the low right corner of the net past diving Providence goalie Timothy Murray to seal the victory...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Scores Twice In Final Five Minutes | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...requirement of the signatures of five school officials and the raise embossed seal on Harvard diplomas make them particularly tricky to replicate, she said at the time...

Author: By Janie M. Tankard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Russian Criminal Group Forges College Diplomas | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Harvard stole back the momentum during the fourth set, winning 25-16, and the Crimson was able to seal the deal in overtime in the fifth...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Splits Contests Against Killer P’s | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Students at Princeton are lobbying for the administration to open a chastity center. The president of Princeton's abstinence society says it's necessary to help rectify "the current double standard by which the University implicitly gives its seal of approval to a more libertarian view of sexuality.” With Princeton's endowment down 23 percent and University President Shirley Tilghman telling the Princetonian she does not think there is ample reason for a chastity center to be established, FlyBy thinks the whole enterprise seems a tad unlikely...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...pharaoh." Samuel Sherwood, in The Church's Flight into the Wilderness, said God would deliver the colonies from Egyptian bondage. The Moses image was so pervasive that on July 4, after signing the Declaration of Independence, the Congress asked Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to propose a seal for the United States. Their recommendation: Moses, leading the Israelites through the Red Sea as the water overwhelms the pharaoh. In their eyes, Moses was America's true Founding Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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