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That evening six years ago, Carter’s great-aunt visited her home in Fayetteville...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Budding Freshman Author Aims to Inspire | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

That was the birth of “Good Fortune,” Carter’s first novel, which­—after six years of writing, editing, and some good fortune of her own—was published this January...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Budding Freshman Author Aims to Inspire | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

Although the Crimson had six man-advantage opportunities, including 86 seconds of 5-on-3 play, Harvard failed to score on any one of its chances, and only managed to tally three shots during twice as many power-play moments...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Special Teams Failures Prove Especially Critical, Dooming Harvard to Last Place | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...cowboys, paleontologist Rex Saint Onge immediately knew that the tree was carved by Indians when he stumbled upon it in the fall of 2006. Located in a shady grove atop the Santa Lucia Mountains in San Luis Obispo County, the centuries-old gnarled oak had the image of a six-legged, lizard-like being meticulously scrawled into its trunk, the nearly three-foot-tall beast topped with a rectangular crown and two large spheres. "I was really the first one to come across it who understood that it was a Chumash motif," says Saint Onge, referring to the native people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tree Carving in California: Ancient Astronomers? | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...around noon, with a new wave of boredom taking hold, the three of them, along with Private First Class Jesse Spielman, sat down outside with a cardboard box as a table to play some rounds of Uno. They drank Iraqi whiskey. Barker had bought five or six 12-oz. cans of the stuff from an Iraqi army soldier at the very reasonable price of $5 per can. There was some bottled whiskey on hand, too. They mixed the whiskey in an empty liter water bottle with some Rip-Its, a carbonated energy drink. Green liked his whiskey straight. Over several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Anatomy of an Iraq War Crime | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

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