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The Harvard women’s volleyball team had a disappointing weekend, falling to both Yale (12-5, 6-2 Ivy) and Brown (5-14, 3-6), as the squad continued to struggle in Ivy League play. Friday night, the Crimson (7-15, 2-8) traveled to New Haven, Conn...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Drops 2 Matches on Road | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

What's striking about the decision to set Wilson free is the majority's reliance on the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Criminal defense attorneys often cite the language in seeking their client's release, but are rarely successful. In recent years, the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilson's Sentence Overturned | 10/27/2007 | See Source »

While George W. Bush’s fervent and explicit Christianity may well be his defining personal feature, critic and professor John Gray reminds us that Bush is not the defining manifestation of political Christianity. According to Gray’s newest book, “Black Mass,â?...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gray’s Anti-Utopian Screed | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Ween—for those uninitiated into their somewhat cultish following—is a band that writes the kind of songs you might have written when you were 12, adopting various musical styles and rigging them up with lyrics that walk the line between juvenile and crass. Only they...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ween | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

But the most striking testimonial may have been the one delivered by Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the Senate's most liberal members. She said she had feared that the war in Iraq left the National Guard so depleted that California would be unable to handle the disaster. But "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cue Disaster, Cut to Schwarzenegger | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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