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...forward, because I’ve always had midfield tendencies…being more central and not being as offensively motivated,” Keating reflects. “But I’ve always liked using stick skills and shooting the ball, so I think it was a smart transition to put me up there.”Although the idea came as a surprise to the junior, Keating kept an open mind and has reaped the benefits. After two moderately productive seasons at midfield, in which Keating notched 14 points over seven starts, the newly-minted forward...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Junior Forward Sparks Offense in New Role | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...city isn’t competing for feature coverage in Vogue or a star-studded front row. “I think [Boston’s] coming into its own for a particular identity. It has less to do with all the pomp and circumstance and more with the smart aspect of fashion,” Calderin says. Yet he acknowledges that the local fashion week does not currently garner the attention that other cities receive in terms of media coverage, noting, “Obviously we would love to have national coverage, but the truth of the matter...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wicked Haute | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...University Press. Yet despite the academic credentials of the authors who penned most of the book’s essays, Ruttenberg said that she designed The Passionate Torah with “the intelligent lay reader in mind.” “The whole idea is that smart people are capable of dealing with big questions,” she said. “I wanted to take them seriously.” A graduate of both Brown and Los Angeles’s Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, Ruttenberg has written several other books, including...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rabbi Speaks About Sex | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

There is a limit on how big the government's borrowings can get before they start causing problems. But what's the limit? In the early 1980s, many smart people would have told you that deficits topping 3% of GDP would bring economic pain, as government borrowing crowded out private investment and investors demanded higher interest rates on Treasuries to compensate for our country's shakier finances. But during the Reagan presidency, deficits stayed above 4% of GDP for five straight years - and interest rates fell, and the economy boomed. (Hence Cheney's full statement to O'Neill: "Reagan proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America and Its Deficits: Are We Broke Yet? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...estimation, such a "toxic" brand that his Education Department recently tore down the faux red schoolhouse emblazoned with the law's name that sat outside its main entrance in downtown Washington. Duncan will be instrumental in rewriting NCLB, starting with the name. "We'll probably get a really smart 10-year-old to figure this one out for us," he says. "It's got to be something more aspirational, more inspirational, more about the direction we need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Arne Duncan (And $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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