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Unlike the youth and collegiate system here, the game is taught in other parts of the world with particular attention to possession-based attacking, to precision-based strategy, and to understanding the fundamentals of the beautiful game...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRUZ CONTROL: Bleak Future on Pitch for U.S. | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

...when graduating seniors were quizzed on the U.S. Constitution, the Puritans, and the like, they answered an average of only 54 percent of questions correctly. This proves empirically that most Americans are either dumb enough to forget the basic “civic literacy” that they are taught in grade school, or else so bad at paying attention that they never actually learned it in the first place...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Blame Canada | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

...confluence between my real life and his life as he retold it. He was in an American prisoner of war camp, taking a cooking class wherein they had no food to prepare, starving. I, too, was suffering hunger pains, and was engrossed in the feasts he was taught to conjure out of thin air. I, just like him, could do no more than dream of delectable chewables, constrained as I was to mush for weeks. And there we bonded. Sure, he was a Nazi soldier, a job he had volunteered for. And yeah, he was a member of the Waffen...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peeling the Onion - Gunter Grass | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...pretty much self-taught. I guess I’ve learned techniques from watching videos and things like that...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Sam M. Zornow '08 | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...those governments to help fund shelter, food, sanitation, health care and transportation for arriving Iraqis. Among the 200,000 Iraqi children who have fled to Jordan, only 20,000 started school in the past year, and 6,000 of them dropped out. As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should have taught us, the grievances of refugees may start as humanitarian concerns, but they quickly become security problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Access Denied | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

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