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Talk about a diamond-in-a-rough weekend for the women’s volleyball team. Despite her total of 46 kills and 39 digs over the span of two games, senior outside hitter Kathryn McKinley’s stellar performance simply wasn’t enough to carry Harvard past Brown or Yale...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Senior Assassin Leads Harvard Attack | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...political director of New Hampshire Institute of Politics. She has appeared frequently on MSNBC, C-SPAN AND CNN. But her most delicious credential is teaching a class called “Pizza and Politics” at Saint Anselm College...

Author: By Meaghan E Lyons, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Fellowship of the IOP | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...shares in the same experience of the Indians who survived the genocide. Just like the witness to genocide, the reader of genocide becomes “not complete in the mind.”Moya depicts the confused mind of his protagonist using run-on sentences that can span several pages. The narrator’s thoughts may begin with the humorously carnal—“That Sunday I stayed in bed...fantasizing about Pilar, but not managing to concentrate long enough to jack off properly”—before bleeding into the violently physical?...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Senselessness’ Is Full of Sense (and Power) | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...allotted time with his own seemingly endless monologues. Out on the campaign trail as a two-time presidential candidate, he roused audiences with his fire and eloquence but sometimes turned them off with tactless blunders and goofs, like when he famously snapped at a voter before a C-SPAN camera and noted that in Delaware "you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." In January 2007, on the day he launched his own presidential campaign, he was quoted in a newspaper describing Obama as "the first mainstream African-American [presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Debate Challenge: Keeping His Mouth Shut | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...theme—will feature experts in computing and the sciences who will discuss an “eclectic” mix of issues relevant to those fields. “We’re hoping to bring speakers to campus who have cross-cutting messages and interests that span the sciences and computer science,” Reid said. Asked about how the colloquium came about, Reid said that it stemmed from discussions between IIC Director and Applied Physics and Physics professor Efthimios Kaxiras and SEAS Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering J. Gregory Morrisett. This semester?...

Author: By Marianna N Tishchenko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Colloquium To Join Computing, Science | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

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