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...Quakers, co-defending champions, lost quality seniors such as Alex Grendi and Omid Shokoufandeh and will have trouble replacing their goal contributions. Road games to Brown and Harvard at the end of the season also spell trouble for their post-season chances...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRUZ CONTROL: Successful Season Ahead for Crimson | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...tweeting.” But then, unlike Rip, they decide to join in. Anyone who’s ever read the tweets of people like Senator Chuck Grassley, an adult who should know better, can justifiably shudder. Don’t they realize that the only people who actually spell the phrase “see you later” as “CUL8R” are those undercover cops who pose as 14-year-olds to catch online predators? These sad Twitter feeds are the technological equivalent of those old women on buses who wear four-inch heels...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Hitting the Technology Wall | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...town hall meeting with the FAS community regarding a then-$220 million deficit, proposed solutions to the budgetary quagmire have been scant, breeding confusion among faculty and staff, who hope that this afternoon’s “Discussion with the Dean” will end the dry spell...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Dean To Hold Open Forum on Budget Deficit | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...more forceful and direct role - and soon, including an address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9. Rather than leaving the legislative sausagemaking up to Congress, allies say, Obama will have to become far more specific about what he wants to see in a bill. He must spell out, for instance, precisely what he means by a public option, an issue that has grown to outsize proportion as an ideological flash point. The President may also need to declare whether he would be willing to sign a bill without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Grassley Turned on Health-Care Reform | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

That glut, however, could spell disaster down the road. U.N. drug officials estimate about 10,000 tons of opium have been unaccounted for since 2006 (the figure was about 8,000 tons a year ago). Costa believes the Taliban and drug traffickers in the region have stockpiled the drugs, fearing a crash in world prices if they sold the opium surplus. But the stockpiles could hugely complicate NATO's efforts to eradicate opium in Afghanistan and persuade farmers to grow other crops. That's because while some farmers seem to have switched their production, plenty of opium lies stored, potentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report: Afghanistan's Opium Boom May Be Over | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

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