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Whatever he said behind closed doors, it worked wonders. In the third quarter, Harvard scored 21 points in the span of less than four minutes, as the Crimson reeled off its greatest comeback ever. All of a sudden, Harvard had become a second-half team...

Author: By Brian E. Falon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murphy Guides Football to Dream Season | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

...anything suspicious, people lose their calm and flee indoors, where at least they know the NutraSweet is not anthrax. Bush aides admitted last week that briefing saturation had "muddled" their message. Shouldn't those talking agency heads (save Rumsfeld, whose briefings should be replayed in perpetuity on C-SPAN) get back to headquarters and catch us some terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unleash The Pitcher Within! | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...must constantly fight to protect those same works and their many tapestries from the decay that overexposure to sun will accelerate. In Harvey and Ackroyd’s own work the relationship between the creating, life giving power of light and its destructive aspect is condensed into a shorter span of time. Their work explores the inevitability of time’s passing and the desire to control—and even freeze—that passage through art making...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Gift of Presence: Living Art at the Gardner | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...overweight and unattractive. Poking fun at issues like body image is a treacherous endeavor, but not an impossible one. Weezer, in this summer’s music video for “Hashpipe,” successfully managed to satirize MTV culture by parodying the short-attention-span hyper-sexuality that so pervades music, movies and television. In the case of the “Hashpipe” video, the subject was not a Britney Spears or Cameron Diaz, but instead a pair of fighting sumo wrestlers. By fetishizing fleshy backsides instead of glistening lips and cleavage, Weezer turned MTV?...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shallow Hal | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

Using a treasure hunt for a valuable and historically significant object to hold the narrative together, Martin’s novels trace the history of legendary New England locations and span several generations. In Cape Cod, the characters embark on search for a lost log of the Mayflower. “These stories begin in the distant past and pick up with a modern character. We follow him as he keeps delving into the past. You travel through time with the main characters and you have two stories, the modern and the historical, working at the same time...

Author: By C.l. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Fact Meets Fiction | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

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