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There’s a song from an old Broadway musical that begins “It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.” Despite getting off to a solid start with wins over Delaware State and Wofford at the season-opening Harvard Invitational, the Crimson women’s volleyball team suffered a crushing six-match conference losing streak, downing any Ivy title aspirations and holding the squad to an 8-18 record. “Although the record doesn’t show it, I feel like...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Conference Losing Streak Unable to Snap Seniors’ Spirit | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...Phnom Penh, I stop by the offices of Rory and Melita Hunter, an Australian couple whose real estate company was recently granted a 99-year lease to build a luxury boutique hotel on Song Saa, a tiny pair of islands off the coast. They show me elaborate renderings of the future 40-room complex, replete with a wine cellar, air-conditioned library and 15 over-water bungalows designed to reflect the architecture of a nearby fishing village. The Hunters paid relocation costs for the 15 or so families living on the islands. They hauled away tons of trash that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Improbable Paradise | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...Many Sinaloans hail the traffickers as heroes, saying they have fought hard to bring wealth to the hardscrabble region, and crediting them with helping the poor by rebuilding houses, buying medicine and handing out extravagant Christmas gifts. Their exploits are celebrated in song in narco corridos or drug ballads, which are banned on radio and television but are immensely popular on the street, where the gunslingers are often referred to valientes, or brave ones - and stores with names like "Mafia Clothes" sell gold chains of Kalashnikov rifles to heavily armed men in alligator-skin boots who drive huge, gleaming pickups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Drug War Goes 'Behind Enemy Lines' | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...long fall. Reading the newspaper, Caden sees a headline about a playwright. "Harold Pinter's dead," he muses aloud. "No, wait, he won the Nobel Prize." He glances at the TV and sees his own animated form as part of a cartoon show, accompanied by the sing-song lyrics: "Then he died /Maybe someone cried /But not his ex-bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally! An Instant Cannes Classic | 5/24/2008 | See Source »

...thing I hate: buying music. I haven't bought a CD or MP3 in years. Instead, I subscribe to music. I pay a small monthly fee to Rhapsody, an online digital-music service, and can access most of the world's music--more than 5 million songs--by streaming it via the Net to my home audio system. I can listen to just about any song I want, anytime, anywhere. That's known in the geekosphere as "music dial tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Idiot Box Gets Smart | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

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