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...suspects. (Four years ago, Greece miraculously beat stratospheric odds to win, a performance unlikely to be repeated.) And as is also now usual, the tournament will be followed on televisions not just in Europe, but everywhere from Kunming, China to - well, to Kearney, N.J., actually. And thereby hangs a tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer: An American Game | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...delicious—rice paper.Like Japan, Harvard is not known for its privacy. This is, after all, a school in which the three tasks to complete before graduation all involve some form of public nudity and exposed genitalia. The halls of Annenberg echo with last night’s tale of dormcest and the walls of Canaday are just as thin as those in Japan—although not nearly as delicious.Initially, as a freshman used to the separation of home and school, I found this lack of privacy frustrating. But after a couple of months here, I began...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura | Title: Aiming for the A-List | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...chairman opened the speech with some reminiscences of his time at Harvard, relating a tale of skipping class for a Red Sox World Series game...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Thomas J. Lawless, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Bernanke's Class Day Speech Leaves Many Unimpressed, Wet | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...works of colonized writers in departmental or upper-level history courses, their introduction to “history” must be on the terms of the imperialists. It is a shame that in the age of the free flow of information, history at Harvard is still a tale told by the victors...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Let the Subaltern Speak | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...again, this time in Rapid City, S.D. This time her name was Margaret Dinock, but she was part of a national Greek chorus, haunting the rope lines of every candidate in every Democratic primary this year. As almost always, she was middle-aged and working class, with a desperate tale to tell, usually about health care. And this time, in classic Hellenic fashion on the last day of the Democratic primary season, she offered narrative punctuation: a gray sweatshirt with a picture of a vehemently orange car screeching to a halt at a highway barrier and the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Hillary Unite the Party? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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