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...Maradona last played professional soccer in 1997, when his fifth comeback for Boca Juniors was abruptly ended after a positive test for cocaine after the first match of the season. Despite these falls, and a slow slide into decadence during a retirement marked by continued reports of substance abuse, sex scandals and violent confrontations with the paparazzi, Maradona is revered here here as "Saint Maradona," or simply "El Diego." A "Maradonian Church" has been created with followers who gather to celebrate his birthday every year with a "Maradona Mass" that includes dancing girls in front of a "Maradonian" altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Season Ticket for the Cemetery | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...Greenough School in nearby Dedham, Mass., are looking to translate the defensive skills that they honed together in high school to the Harvard blue line.Coskren—a quick, adept defender whose two older brothers currently play on the men’s hockey team—should slide right into the defensive rotation with the returning Crimson starters.Likewise, Stephens will only add to a Harvard netminding corps that already boasts savvy goaltenders in Brittany Martin and Christina Kessler. “It’s definitely great to have a good third goalie in practices...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HOCKEY PREVIEW 2007-08: Heads of the Class | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...Herminie Cadolle. About 120 years ago, Mme. Cadolle figured out that it made more sense for women's breasts to be suspended from above than cantilevered from beneath. That is, she invented bra straps. So instead of walking around wearing the lingerie equivalent of the London Bridge, women could slide themselves into a Golden Gate. This was a huge relief--as anyone who has worn a strapless bra can tell you--because the London Bridge pretty much always falls down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Buffett, Adjust My Bra | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...people at Radcliffe. They’d give me treats. These people avoid me like I have the plague, or am a member of the UC. It hurts. 14) Now that Drew is president, we sleep on silk sheets…they were nice at first, but now I slide off them. Talk about a mood-killer. 15) Look at my new collar! It’s from UC funds. Party grant that, Ryan A. Petersen...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Things the Dog Told the Shrink | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...sites is to examine where people go after leaving their MySpace or Facebook page. MySpace users count multimedia and photography sites (such as YouTube, Flickr and Photobucket) as the most common sites visited after dropping by the site. Facebook visitors have a similar pattern, visiting sites like Slide, YouTube and Flixter. The one stand-out difference between the two is that, owing to Facebook's heritage as a social network for college students, 5% of those leaving the Facebook domain continue on to websites within the educational category. The most fascinating point lies in the traffic patterns between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MySpace v. Facebook: Competing Addictions | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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