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...succeed. An elite college student is either a well-rounded jack-of-all-trades or a specialist in one discipline. The admits who have a strong background in the liberal arts have already proven their all-around excellence; the specialists have demonstrated that they can flourish on their own turf and should not be subjected to fields that may hold them back. In fact, the one thing they share is an inability to benefit from a core curriculum...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: What Brown Can Do for You | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...that I really wanted for my own individual goals. I wanted, first and foremost, to win an Ivy League championship.”The problem seems to be a Franklin Field curse.In the team’s 2004 undefeated season, the Crimson beat Penn badly on its home turf, but other than that it has been all Quakers.Before the Ryan Fitzpatrick era, the squad had not won since 1980 at Franklin.Despite Penn’s lackluster record, there is something about the field and atmosphere that prevents strong play.Whether or not the curse exists Harvard, the bottom line...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clifton Dawson, Ivy League Rushing King | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...because somehow it doesn't seem as feelthy coming from a gay guy). The Oscar-winning writer-director of Talk to Her and All About My Mother cast Cruz as the embodiment of motherhood in a movie about three generations of women surviving the wild winds of his home turf, La Mancha, Spain--winds that blow in fires, death and some superfluous men. Volver is Spanish for return. Fittingly, with the film, Almodvar has reclaimed the Madrid-born Cruz from the lost- property department of blond and bland Hollywood, where she has lived for the past several years carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pedro Rescued Penelope | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...north of the island, arrested the occupants of an unregistered car matching the description of a vehicle at the crime scene. But when prosecutors asked for other evidence to be handed over, Greek-Cypriot authorities in the south refused, demanding that the trial be held on their turf. United Nations mediators tried but failed to break the deadlock, and the suspects were soon released from custody and remain at large in northern Cyprus and Turkey. "It's a sad story," the Greek Cypriot Attorney General Petros Clerides told Time. Sad - and typical. For 32 years, ever since an Athens-backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holes in a Hard Line | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

DAWKINS: I think that Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a very empty idea. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf. Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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