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...heard blare from behind me.I froze at her voice! Where could I hide? What was even huge enough to hide me? A statue? A cross? An ironclad? There was nothing anywhere. A church foyer had never been so ruthless!Then I saw him. Next to the Easter egg crucifix stood Marshall Pellet. He would shield me from her. But was he alone? Too late to wait! I grabbed my skirt and charged. In the blur of flight I grabbed some sort of flower (a daylily?) from the arrangement I whizzed by. I held the thing up—its petals...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...caskets returning from Iraq would be altered to allow news coverage of the caskets with express consent from the families of the deceased. This ban had been in place for 18 years, enacted under the administration of President George H. W. Bush during the Gulf War. As the regulation stood, all photography of caskets of war dead was prohibited. Under these new provisions, caskets can be photographed only with the consent of the soldiers’ families. While this is a promising development, the revisions do not go far enough. The United States owes a debt of obligation to both...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Captured Reality | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...stood back to back with his brother and he did some jumps. And he can play tambourine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jonas Brothers Movie Review: Kids vs. Critic | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...That's a dividing line between old and modern pop-music culture. The Beatles were just about the last gigantic group that was pre-sexual. The guys stood still, played and sang; their girl-fans screamed in veneration, not in venery. The Rolling Stones changed that. From then on and forever, the public playing of rock 'n' roll was a physical activity, and the focus was on the lead singer's sex appeal. By now that tradition is so dominant that it may not even be sexual; it's simply the language of pop performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jonas Brothers Movie Review: Kids vs. Critic | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...upperclassmen, being pushed has brought out their raw talent.Freshman Max Kenyi has given Harvard valuable minutes at point guard, while freshmen Peter Swiatek and Hugh Martin have gotten their feet wet in the front court. The other first-years, Keith Wright, Peter Boehm and Oliver McNally, have also stood out.Among these freshmen, forward Wright ranks highest with both 13 starts and about seven points per game.“I think Keith has established himself. I think he’s going to be a tremendous inside, low-post player throughout his tenure here in the Ivy League...

Author: By Alexandra E. Zimbler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rookies Forced Into the Lineup | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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