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...Senior Day at Reese Field, the Bulldogs will counter with a slew of seniors, including one of the top goalies in the league, George Carafides, who sits second in the Ivies with 11 saves per game. Carafides had 19 stops in last weekend’s 10-2 victory over Air Force...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard to Play Spoiler at Yale | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...quantify what, exactly, a company gets when it puts money into bonding with its workers. Consultancies such as Towers Perrin, Watson Wyatt, Hewitt Associates and the Gallup Organization measure how "engaged" workers are and then counsel companies on how to ratchet up those scores. The result is a slew of initiatives--like frequently telling workers how they generate value and offering them free retraining to move from one division to another--that go far beyond the rudimentary concept of motivating people with pay to get them to work harder. "In competitive times, we all have to achieve more with less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rage to Engage | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Sarah Marshall,” the next installment in the seemingly endless string of Judd Apatow-produced comedies, might settle Segel’s relationship problems for good, and not just because of his hysterically drawn-out nude scene. After a slew of supporting roles in television and a successful writing career, Segel seems poised for breakout success. “When I was like 20, I had just finished ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and I was walking my first red carpet and I was really excited and someone, a photographer, yelled...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Segel Lets It All Hang Out | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...virtual lily plant on Facebook and invited me to create a (Lil) Green Patch, a digital garden that would grow on my profile page, and that any of my friends could help water, weed and plant. Sounds cute, right? Not if you've recently suffered through an overwhelming slew of requests to give a grain of rice, send good karma and rate your friends on everything including their hotness, creativity, fashion sense and intelligence. I wasn't merely skeptical - I was annoyed. But I didn't want to be a killjoy - and I love plants - so I went ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffering From Facebook Fatigue? | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...Johnson—those ‘small government principles’ were unceremoniously trashed. And in the name of the War on Terror, the Republicans have become the party of the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, which effectively put paid to habeas corpus and a slew of other civil liberties...

Author: By Daniel C. Barbero | Title: That Old-Time Religion | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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