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...Carroll, in just the third start of his career, made 42 stops and protected the lead for a Harvard team that was outshot 44-24. Carroll has seized the role of starting goaltender with several solid performances this past week...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Beats Cornell in Latest Installment of Rivalry, Gains Ground in Conference | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

...Behind the glitz, however, is a solid and reasonably full account of Lincoln's life and achievements, with an admirably nuanced examination of the agonizing politics involved in emancipating the slaves. Perhaps the most moving artifacts on display are also the simplest - plaster casts of Lincoln's craggy face and huge, rough hands, made by a sculptor during Lincoln's life. Somehow, these more than any other exhibit capture the power and the gentleness, the strength and the fatigue, that defined Lincoln as president. (See video of Lincoln in film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporter's Notebook: Visiting Lincoln's Springfield | 2/14/2009 | See Source »

...that objects moving quickly across the screen can make viewers nauseous, but having anything move quickly into your field of vision in the water is startling. Mostly the technology succeeds, however, not because it makes you feel you're underwater so much as that you're no longer on solid ground. At several points, you almost want to hold your breath. (See photos of life beneath Antarctic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Sea: Fish Tales in 3-D | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...sports administration with CPS, knew Duncan well before working under the CEO. The two were raised one block away from each other in Hyde Park. “He grew up in the unlikely scenario,” says Wilkins, “of a kid from a solid middle class background going across the very real racial lines of Chicago to tutor kids eight blocks from where he lived...

Author: By H. max Huber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Arne S. Duncan '86 | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...Livni lacks support among the other parties. For starters, she needs to coax Netanyahu to join her. The two parties actually share many of the same policies and ideologies - Kadima broke away from Likud and drifted to the center - and, in theory, their combined strength could usher in a solid, center-right government. But the mutual antagonism of both leaders makes an accommodation all but impossible. Netanyahu, for example, refused to debate with Livni in public, and both rivals launched smear attacks against each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Election Dashes Hopes for Peace | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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