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...worked his way back into shape, he contacted Harvard—a program that had recruited him back when he was a high school senior. Payne had not jumped aboard then, but revisited the idea of playing in Harvard Stadium...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brad Payne: A Man on a Mission | 9/17/2002 | See Source »

...Others have sold entire herds for pennies a pound. "If you can't feed them, you can't keep them," says Wyatt. Dry-land farmers, who either can't afford the expensive irrigation water or live too far out to be able to use it, are in even worse shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dust Bowl | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...village is laid out in the shape of a boat. "Maybe our ancestors sailed here from somewhere, and they wanted to keep their memory of the sea," says Theos Muja, another clan patriarch. He then embarks on a convoluted tale about the local volcanoes: Ibolobu is man, and Enerea is nature, married to Manulabu, the rooster. Ibolobu falls for Enerea and fights Manulabu for her. In the end, the rooster's head is chopped off, leaving Ibolobu free to wed Enerea. Muja takes half an hour to spin the yarn, puffing away on hand-rolled, pungent cigarettes, pulling faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

McDavitt, for all her early brilliance, was held off the scoreboard for the rest of the day. She had worked her way back into game-shape slowly, and had only managed practice every other day during the preseason...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Tops Penn in Ivy Debut | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...tells us that a “woman’s Harvard experience is fundamentally no different from a man’s Harvard experience.” Harvard’s controversial new policy for investigating sexual assault—a policy that will undoubtedly shape the undergraduate experience of more than a few women each year—is not mentioned. On page four, when Winthrop House Allston Burr Senior Tutor Courtney B. Lamberth reminds us that women face sexual assault, depression and eating disorders at rates disproportionate to those of their male classmates...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Quinn, | Title: Misinterpreting Bradstreet | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

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