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Despite the competitive spirit of the contest, the members of the two teams said they have become friends...

Author: By Christopher H. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Chess Club Ties Beijing Team | 10/5/2008 | See Source »

...bridge to nowhere.” Although Treuer said he does not support Palin as the next vice president, he said that he is still excited to see his governor on the national stage. “There’s just sort of a general spirit of excitement,” Treuer said. “A couple of years before, she was just a minor political figure you’d recognize while shopping at Costco.” Earlier this year, the Alaska Klub—whose main events are the Polar Bear Swim and Human Iditarod?...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alaska Klub Cool to Gov. Palin | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...Posh Spice. Who knows? Dina Lohan finally acknowledged the relationship publicly in mid-September, telling Entertainment Tonight that “if they are happy, I am happy. This is my child, I mean, what better place for a child to be than happy in her soul and her spirit...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: The Summer of (Lesbian) Love | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...dwindle further. Alaska has seen these boom-and-bust cycles before. The "seal mines" of the Pribilof Islands, the salmon canneries, the Klondike gold rush--all these short-lived booms appealed to what New Deal--era Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes once derided as Alaska's "gambling spirit." Palin is now rolling the dice on the national stage with a political persona based in part on her willingness to challenge the big oil companies. To many Americans, it's an appealing pitch, and Palin's record suggests that she has stuck to her guns more than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin's Pipeline to Nowhere? | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...devotion from a legion of discriminating fans. More importantly, Yankee Stadium will repose dearly in the hearts of Yankee fans, and all true devotees of baseball, not because of its many championships—and other trophies to the vanity of man—but because of the noble spirit, the magnanimity which it has always represented and with which it had imbued the sport...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe and Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Point/Counterpoint: Et In Our Stadia Ego | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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