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It’s no secret that Harvard football senior cornerback Andrew Berry is a star on and off the field. From astounding football ability to academic prowess, Berry has been a standout his entire Crimson career. Now the entire country will know of Berry’s talents as...

Author: By Evan Kendall, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Superman’ Berry Nominated for Draddy | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

The sand dunes of Scotland's northeast coast have a rugged, unadorned beauty and understated elegance. So when Donald Trump flew his private Boeing jet into Aberdeen airport in 2006 and announced, with typical Trumpian bombast, that he intended to construct a billion-dollar-plus development on the dunes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trump to Build Contested Scotland Complex | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

What ensues is a regeneration drama, but unlike many movies in that often sentimental and melodramatic vein, its scale is modest and understated. Juliette needs a job. She also needs an apartment of her own. And perhaps (she hardly dares think about this), a man. But she's a marked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Modest Triumph of I've Loved You So Long | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

When I ask Simons about winning a college tournament at Vanderbilt while still in high school, he dwells on the limited size of the field. When I ask why he neglected to tell me that he recently finished first in a scrimmage between the freshmen from MIT and Harvard, he...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mind Games | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

That doesn't mean China hasn't been nicked already by the crisis. It has. Its banks have an estimated $12 billion in exposure to subprime debt in the U.S., a figure some analysts believe is understated. Its sovereign wealth funds have lost tens of millions of dollars on poorly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's View of the Financial Mess: Alarmed But Confident | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

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