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...last regular season game against Steven Tech on April 7, the three seniors prepared to leave the team to the underclassmen.“I don’t want to leave, but I’m happy—we’re ready to pass the torch.” Fitz said, “I love volleyball, and I wish I could play for another four years, but I realize that it’s not my time anymore. The juniors, sophomores, and freshmen—it’s their team now.”HARVARD...

Author: By Kara T. Kelley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weissbourd Leads Lavietes Sweep | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...They were the anthems of a good-time girl who cried out, in the words of "Poppa Don't Preach to Me (The Perils of Pauline): "Let me fling till my fling is all flung." Yet she could also give heart (and soul) to a torch song, like the Pauline ballad "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" ("My love for you / Should have faded long ago"). Simple, sad and beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Betty Got Frank | 3/31/2007 | See Source »

...March 19 the Supreme Court heard the case of Joseph Frederick, an Alaska high school student who, during the 2002 Olympic torch relay, was suspended for displaying the marijuana-slang phrase BONG HITS 4 JESUS on a banner across the street from his school. The ruling should determine the extent of a school's control over messages displayed in a public setting. "I don't see what it disrupts," Justice David Souter said of the pro-cannabis banner. A ruling is expected by June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Speech | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...related message across the street from his school. The case concerns Joseph Frederick, a high school student who was suspended for holding up a 14-foot banner that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” on the sidewalk next to his school at the 2002 Olympic torch relay in Juneau, Alaska. His principal argued that the sign encouraged drug use and interfered with the educational mission of the school. Kenneth Starr of Monica Lewinsky fame, who represented the principal, asked the court to carve out a “drug exception” to student free speech...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Muzzled In Alaska | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...Parks, a 20-year veteran of the firm. "[But] some people in the organization had tom peters tattooed on their arm." In fact, some key players who had followed Peters into the company eventually followed him out. Ron Crossland stepped into the void but in January passed the management torch to Thompson while remaining as chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Leading! Without! Tom! Peters! | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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