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...those afternoons the now-anachronistic Yale Bowl took on a tragic quality, the crisp evening air a harbinger of cold winter—a winter that Yale victories over Harvard somehow seemed to defer...

Author: By Alex Goldberger, YALE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER | Title: Polhemus Will Help Bulldogs End Slide | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...meaningless. Anyone can, for example, lend support to the hundreds of Darfur groups on Facebook and, in doing so, proclaim their commitment to the issue. Not only do such groups usually accomplish nothing, but they also promulgate the disturbing idea that joining a Facebook group is somehow a contribution to democracy. Groups are, in this way, more harmful than beneficial. The voices of those who could affect real change are drowned, simply because by the 501st Facebook group, no one is left listening...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Facebooking Politics | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...tailgate should be a raucous precursor to a football game, not its replacement. We’ve somehow transformed our lone attempt at college football normalcy into a particularly bad night at the Kong...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Game Can't Top Oklahoma Football | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...Somehow, decades after her brief fame, in a last-minute rescue so late it was nearly post-mortem, Brooks triumphed. In 1953, Henri Langlois of Paris' Cinematheque Francaise spearheaded the revival of her reputation by proclaiming, "There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" The cue for his effusion was George Wilhelm Pabst's 1929 German melodrama Pandora's Box, in which Brooks plays Lulu, an innocent beguiler who radiates sexuality so unself-consciously toxic that it drives men mad - beyond lust, to disgrace and murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu-Louise at 100 | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...We’re not sure if the window was locked or not, but the window was definitely closed so he must have pushed it up somehow,” he added...

Author: By Rebecca M. Anders, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Theft Occurs in Claverly Suite | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

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