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Surprisingly, the Crimson returns to ECAC play in the same position as it left it before exam period--in first place. Although other conference teams had as many as six games in hand in mid-January, none of the closest contenders have been able to string together enough victories to overtake the Crimson...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Seeks To Defend Top Spot in ECAC | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

...revolt, I held a cocktail party for visiting family members. Afterward, we climbed into the car and toured the revolution. My family enjoyed roaming the fortified hotel with machine-gun toting soldiers and opportunistic, barong-clad politicians wearing heavy gold jewelry. In the next three years, a string of coup attempts nearly toppled the government of Corazon Aquino. This has been one of the unintended and unfortunate legacies of People Power: that a coup, popular or otherwise, is considered a legitimate - glorious even - way to transfer power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops, We Did It Again | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...Sting was far better, unleashing a string of his hits - From "Set them Free" to his latest single "After the Rain." He was recently nominated for a Grammy for his rendition of Brazilian songwriter Ivan Lins' "She Walks This Earth." You can hear the influence of Rio in some of Sting's music - the cool samba swing, the sometimes unusual time signatures, the tropical warmth. Here, on stage at Rock in Rio, it was all coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...blackboard-heavy experience is in part due to Harvard's great blackboards: the room-wide expanses of Sever's corner classrooms, the perfectly automated n-piece boards of Maxwell Dworkin, the unfinished lemmas on the wall of the math lounge, the nearly square boards in the string theorists' fourth-floor playground...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Fragment 13 | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

Divorced twice already, Stahl had had a string of affairs. Carolyn Oppy's sister, Linda Dubay, says Stahl, with a middling career as an anesthesiologist, was unable to live up to his family's high expectations for him. His father was a respected surgeon and CEO of a hospital. "Ken needed the ego boosts of his affairs--usually with divorced nurses, single mothers, needy individuals." Vasco fit the profile. Oppy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orange County Confidential | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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