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...Classic. Nor does it conjure up nostalgic images of fathers and sons huddled around the TV on a cold October evening, wrapping America's favorite pastime in a warm embrace. But while the World Series receives most of baseball's post-season adoration, it's often the sport's semi-finals - the League Championship Series (LCS) - that deliver the most heart-pounding drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The League Championship Series | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...time of 8%-plus growth, the government is also mulling a Right to Education Bill, which would make the right to primary education legally enforceable in a court of law. But child rights activists say the legislation in its present form will only produce a class of semi-literate, semi-educated people and perpetuate social inequity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Grass-Roots Teachers | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...described them as a “senseless destruction in the U.S. financial system” and a well-known executive exclaimed on the pages of The Financial Times that “Greenspan’s sins return to haunt us.” Finger-pointing, whining and semi-fake expressions of compassion with homeowners are all mixed in print and the airwaves with serious analysis. A surefire recipe for confusion has thus emerged. Although many seem to enjoy suggesting that the present state is disastrous or worse, certainly not all have jumped on the bandwagon...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Lessons from the Financial Crisis | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

...semi-retirement” from the technology business, Mayersohn said that he plans to make the book store a priority. He prepared to become the president of the store by traveling to major independent book stores across the country and studying their operations. He joined a booksellers’ trade association and even attended a school for booksellers. This helped in negotiations, during which Mayersohn and Kramer “shared a common vocabulary...

Author: By Emily J. Hogan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alum To Manage Harvard Book Store | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...rush to evacuate the building just yet. Which is why not much has changed on 32 Quincy Street just yet. THE FUTURE AWAITSThough little concrete progress has been made on the building renovations, the museum staff and curators have been busy planning and executing the installation of the new semi-permanent exhibit that will showcase pieces from the collections of the Sackler, the Busch-Reisinger, and the Fogg while the 32 Quincy Street building is under construction. “Re-View,” the current Sackler show, is the first time that so many works from the different...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Art Thou, Fogg? | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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