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...last event before the new year, the Harvard wrestling team pitted its talent against some of the country’s best wrestlers, ending up with a 17th-place finish at the Midlands Wrestling Tournament. The Crimson sent six wrestlers to compete at Welsh-Ryan Arena on the campus of Northwestern University this Saturday, with two advancing to the second day of competition. Freshman Corey Jantzen, returning from an ankle injury that sidelined him for almost a month, put up the most impressive performance for Harvard. Wrestling as the eighth seed at 141 lb., Jantzen blazed through the first...

Author: By Tony D. Qian, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Finishes 17th at Midlands | 12/31/2007 | See Source »

...that George Lucas, with his talent, sees only a world where boys grow up to be soldiers and girls to be princesses. His is a society where men save the galaxy and women have a different costume for every event. Understandable, perhaps, in 1977, when the first Star Wars film was released, but in 1999? Come on, George! You want children to "think outside the box," yet you perpetuate centuries-old sex roles. RICHARD PATTAY Greensboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1999 | 12/31/2007 | See Source »

...spite of all those deficiencies, Huckabee has something that no other candidate on the Republican side, save perhaps John McCain, has been able to muster this cycle. With the training of a former Baptist pastor, he has an uncanny ability to move an audience, and a real talent for the endless drudgery of person-to-person retail campaigning. It is a talent that he has also used to his advantage with the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Growing Pains | 12/31/2007 | See Source »

...Bhutto took her talent in communications to the doors of 14 Plympton St., hoping to write editorials for The Crimson, she said in 1998. The paper's editors at the time decided she was better suited for sports writing, but she was cut in the last round of the comp...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classmates Remember Strong-Willed and Patriotic Bhutto | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...were one of the first people to see YouTube as a talent scouting vehicle. Do you still look at it that way? I do, but it's shifted. User-generated content is sort of over now. Now it's about semi-pro. Especially when you have a late-night show that doesn't have the money everybody else does or an independent production company, you're forced to look at other ways of doing things. There's these 23-year-olds who grew up with YouTube, Google, Final Cut Pro. They shoot, they produce, they edit, they direct and star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Call's Carson Daly | 12/24/2007 | See Source »

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