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...Crimson will have to improve its run defense, which gave up 133 yards in the loss to Lafayette. This will be no easy task, as Princeton comes in averaging nearly 120 rushing yards per game, good for third in the Ancient Eight...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Looks To Run over Rival Princeton | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...thought the task was pretty funny...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg | Title: Hasty Pudding Shields John Harvard from Dangerous Tourists | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Massachusetts Port Authority fell into chaos as revenue plummeted across the board. Leslie A. Kirwan ’79, then finance director of the MPA, lost no time in responding. She quickly organized four task forces and got the authority back on firm financial footing within nine months, according to MPA aviation finance director Brian R. McMorrow...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Kirwan Returns to Harvard | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...even if slothful mainstream media outlets cannot take up the task of challenging Fox, the burden of delegitimizing it shouldn’t fall on the executive branch. Recently, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn made clear just how concerned the White House is in her indictment of Fox as “a wing of the Republican Party.” That slip reveals that the White House is in fact concerned with the lies surrounding the national discourse—concerned enough to attack it in an official public-relations capacity...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu | Title: Truth and Fictions | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...what's known as ethno-clinical psychology, which focuses on the effects of cultural origins on human development. She says there are very clear differences in the approaches to child-rearing from one country to the next. "In Germany, children are educated from early on to [execute] a task on their own from beginning to end. In southern [European] countries, children are dependent on what people tell them to do. Southern societies have preserved an independent way of raising children, resisting the modern educational practices that encourage independence at an early age." (See pictures of kids' books come to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Italy, a Mamma Accused of Doting Too Much | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

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