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...Bears immediately put the Crimson on the back foot and with 25 minutes to go were making Harvard’s 1-0 lead appear very tenuous. But the Crimson back line was up to the task. In a three-minute span, Harms saved twice in one-on-one situations...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Down Goes Brown | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Quincy House celebrated its half-century history on Saturday night at an anniversary event attended by inter-generational House affiliates whose connections with the House span the past five decades...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Quincy Gathers For 50th Birthday | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...meeting has been in the works for months, almost since the earliest days of the Obama Administration, and postponed at least once. It is just the most recent display of bipartisan goodwill between current and past holders of the highest office in the land. These alliances often span vast differences in both ideology and age: Richard Nixon paid a secret visit to Bill Clinton, 33 years his junior, to discuss Russia policy in 1993; Herbert Hoover met with John F. Kennedy, 38 years his junior, before he was inaugurated in 1960. Bush, at 85, is 37 years older than Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Obama Meets Bush 41: A Bipartisan Boost? | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...treatments each patient received as well as their health-care proxies' understanding of advanced dementia and the patient's prognosis. Over the course of the study, 55% of the residents died, with nearly half of those deaths occurring within the first six months of the study. Patients' median survival span was 478 days, a figure comparable with that of terminal-cancer patients. Thirty-one residents suffered major health events, such as seizure, gastrointestinal bleeding, heart attack or stroke, but only in rare cases did those events lead to death. Only seven patients had a major event during the final three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redefining Dementia as a Terminal Illness | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...Boasts that he has eliminated almost every comfort from county jails, including basketball, coffee, salt, pepper and movies. Inmates' TV choices are limited to networks such as the Disney Channel and C-SPAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sheriff Joe Arpaio | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

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