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...always one ray of light that had the power to shake seniors out of their 16-years-of-education-induced ennui, that could beckon them -- in hordes -- out of the insular comfort of their spacious suites and prompt them to make the pilgrimage to the northern reaches of campus: Upper Hall...

Author: By Liyun Jin | Title: Upper...Fail. | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...weren't for the fact that before O'Neal signed up for Twitter, his writing career consisted of spelling his name with a Sharpie. He's crushing my Dorothy Parker-level quips, like "Beer summit koan: If you dispel low-income racial tension by removing alcohol, you dispel upper-income racial tension by adding alcohol," with Shaqisms like "Happy birthday, harry potter main charachter dude." I am being beaten by a man whose giant fingers cannot even hit the correct keys. (See excerpts from the world's most popular Twitterers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaq vs. Joel: An Essay-Writing Smackdown | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...Konstadt finished 13th in the B division of racing, with a pair of top-three efforts.Harvard finished the weekend with a total of 235 points, well back of the host Bulldogs’ mark of 143, which earned Yale the overall team title on the weekend.CENTRAL SERIES ONECompeting on Upper Mystic Lake, the Crimson co-ed squad finished seventh in a field of 16 at the Central Series One regatta.Junior skipper Colin Santangelo and freshman crew Sarah McCuskee paced Harvard’s efforts in the B division, where the duo placed fifth and won two of the first three...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women Lead the Way in First Weekend on the Water | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...footnote in the story of how Barack Obama passed health-care reform, but so much of the outcome will be determined by equally unlikely heroes. Who would have imagined that Max Baucus, the fiscally conservative Democratic senator from Montana, would one day be leading Democratic efforts in the upper chamber? Or that Kathleen Sebelius, a former governor of Kansas, would effectively serve as the White House’s health-care czar? Both of those jobs had been more or less reserved for Ted Kennedy ’54-’56 and Tom Daschle respectively, who would have...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: So You Think You Can Shout | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...Regained (for at least 12 hours) the rhetorical upper hand against an opposition that has no comparable megaphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halperin's Take: What Obama Achieved — and What He Didn't | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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