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...water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters of Lake Tana, the eastern source of the Nile, are important to the holy men for more prosaic reasons. They drink it and water their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Waters Of Life | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...Well, I don't need to have good manners--I'm sick--and I'm not going to be a patsy for some smooth talker in a white coat. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Makes a Good Patient? | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...your attention: Killer dance moves...or just being tall and stupid. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Dancing....anywhere. First thing you notice about a guy: His forearms. Freshman boys or senior men?: Freshmen men. Your best pick-up line: I’m not that smooth. (It works every time.) Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I’m naturally blonde. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I’m naturally blonde. Favorite childhood toy: Candyland. Sexiest physical trait: My sex-phone-operator-esque voice. Favorite part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: scoped! | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

LYNN, MASS.—Minutes after the final out of yesterday’s first Beanpot contest on Boston’s North Shore, Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh couldn’t help himself. First, the Crimson dispatched Northeastern by a smooth 8-5 score, sending to next week’s consolation game “the best team,” according to Walsh, that “we’ve beaten this year, in my estimation.”Then the coach testified to the allure of a shiny relic.“That...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Wins, Dreams of Beanpot Repeat | 4/18/2006 | See Source »

...master plan for its expansion into Allston, filling the deanships of Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Education, and meeting with alumni and donors in New York. He’s also tying up some loose ends at the University to ensure “a smooth transition” and to leave his successors with “as clear a sense of where things are—where, at least, I think they should go.” Summers declined to discuss who in Massachusetts Hall would be involved in the transition, and he added that...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Summers Quiet on Future Plans | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

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