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...winnable games for each stand in the way of a 12th edition of The Game with all-or-nothing stakes. True, either team can lose once beforehand and still end up playing for a share of the title but, as the saying goes, a tie is like kissing your sister. Two weeks ago, undefeated Yale looked unstoppable, and star Bulldogs running back Mike McLeod was in the thick of the race for the Walter Payton Award, given annually to the best player in Division I-AA. And though McLeod’s still in the running for the hardware...
...risen by 47% since October 2006, its audience still amounts to only a 3.7% share of viewers in that age group. BBC broadcaster John Humphrys, who vies with Paxman for the distinction of being Britain's least emollient interviewer, recently advocated that BBC3 and its posher, arts-oriented sister BBC4 should be axed to save money. After all, he harrumphed, they're watched by "only...
...amid Violence On Sunday Oct. 20, Bhutto, flanked by a small army of armed security guards, made an unannounced stop in Lyari to offer condolences to the families of the deceased. A crowd gathered to hear her speak from the running board of her idling SUV. "I am your sister and the people of Lyari are my own," she told the crowd. "The way you stood behind me, I would stand beside you forever." The crowd erupted in cheers, and an overenthusiastic supporter fired a traditional shot in the air to celebrate. Immediately the object of the crowd's adoration...
Dispatches from the road are equally enthusiastic. "We stayed in a wonderful if chaotic new hotel called Vivenda, run by a brother-and-sister team, Charlotte and Simon Hayward, whom we loved meeting," wrote Amanda Deitsch Hochman in her online journal on her four-month journey through India, Southeast Asia and Japan with her husband and two young children. We felt "like guests in a friend's house. More guests arrived, and it was like one big house party." They were booked into Vivenda, in Goa, by Victoria Mills and Bertie Dyer, founders of the India Beat travel company...
...life in the Yard treating you anyway?EH: Life in the Yard has been treating me very well. I’ve met so many people and I have an awesome dorm so…3. FM: Next month is the Harvard-Yale game and I know that your sister Sarah is a Yalie, is there going to be any rivalry there?EH: There is always rivalry. Friendly rivalry though! But yeah I want to go and cheer for Harvard while she’s cheering for Yale and then put it in her face when...