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...interesting as these connections are, packing all of them into a 256-page book is tricky. The structure of the book can be difficult to navigate, and the narrative can jump suddenly from the push for health policy to Whitewater in the span of paragraphs. Often, the themes meander and get lost in the convoluted narrative...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The White House Years of Clinton—Hillary, Not Bill | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...scoring and rebounding. Pusar went 5-of-6 from the field to finish with 10 points. The 6’2 guard grabbed five rebounds as well, with four of them on the offensive end. Three of those he put right back for lay-ups in a two-minute span midway through the second half to help Harvard widen its lead to 68-50 with 8:50 remaining. “Certainly, Pusar’s put-backs were really important, just to generate some momentum in the second half offensively,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said after...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breaking Out: A Guard’s Journey to the Starting Lineup | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...Eliot was describing April in “The Waste Land.” This December, the Crimson will get a taste of the land, a survey of the upper echelon of women’s hockey, and the chance to test its mettle, in a short span, against some of the nation’s best...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman and Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Stiff Tests Loom in a Cruel December | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...November seems destined to surpass it. A Thanksgiving Day onslaught by Sunni militants killed more than 200 Iraqis, wounded hundreds and spurred a round of Shi'ite reprisals. As the Iraqi capital erupted in another frenzy of sectarian violence, the U.S. lost eight service members in a span of six days, bringing its death toll to nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Options for the New Secretary of Defense | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...infected at birth by her mother, a crack addict who was later murdered. Placed with foster parents the day after she was born, Daniels was 3 when she became one of the first 70 children in the U.S. to test a protease inhibitor. Even in the brief span of her lifetime, Daniels has watched pediatric-AIDS treatments improve significantly. When she was an infant, her adoptive mother Maryann had to wake her up at 4 a.m. to administer the first of four daily doses. Today the blond, blue-eyed girl, who looks like any active Midwestern teenager, has to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long-Term Prognosis: Lessons from America | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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