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...They are some athletes, out there, don’t you know? Just freaking ripped, tall, can jump a mile, it’s crazy. I never thought I would see such talent on a lowly IM court...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY WORLD: The Line Must Be Drawn in IM Play | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...more and more crucial. Neither prospective students nor current students should ever find themselves unable to meet the asking price. Moreover, our university’s exceptional financial-aid programs have become part of its unique identity in the national collegiate collage. No on-campus concern can ever be tall enough to touch financial aid on its pedestal; in fact, we should be prepared to cut down some concerns to expand aid further. This external necessity is worth any internal cost.The crux of our message is still this: We are bitterly disappointed by these cuts. But, put into perspective with...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Ask Not | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...rise of Obama to important Shi'ite figures like the Imam Ali. Some pointed to a prophecy sometimes attributed to Ali that the arrival of the Mahdi - a messiah-like figure who, Shi'ites believe, will ultimately defeat evil - will be presaged by the appearance of a messenger, a tall black man who will rule the West. Others read meaning into Obama's name. In Persian, O-ba-ma means "He's with us," and Barack Hussein can loosely be translated as "blessings of Hussein," an allusion to Ali's son, another imam revered by the Shi'ites. Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Scuttlebutt: Pssst! Obama's a Shi'ite | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...spectators, then stand moon-faced and legs apart around their man, guns slung over their shoulders and pointed down, trigger fingers running along the guard - the pose of elite troops from Fort Bragg to the southern Philippines. Nkunda is a man who manages his appearance carefully, cutting a tall and slightly dandyish figure in combat fatigues, a purple beret and gold-rimmed glasses, and carrying a black cane topped with a silver eagle's head. At times, he has affected a prophet-preacher look: a long flowing black overcoat, a high cream woollen polo neck and a wide-brimmed black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be (Congo's) King | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...basement of Shenandoah University's Goodson Chapel one chilly November Sunday morning, John Copenhaver, a tall, white-haired professor of philosophy and religion, folded at the waist to demonstrate how to bow like a monk. The eight students clustered around him watched closely. One, taking stock of the incredulous faces around him, volunteered the group's unofficial credo: When in doubt, "find an old person, and do what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Winchester | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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