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...wrung out of the system. Yes, it will hurt. But he remains sure of one thing. "We've got a city we are proud of," he says. "There's a feeling that London is a good place, and that hasn't changed." At troubled times like these, a stiff upper lip may be just what's needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London's Gathering Storm | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...show what he can do. ADAM CHRISSISWhile many incoming football players will spend their rookie season learning the playbook and working out in the weight room, freshman wide-out Adam Chrissis will instead be gearing up as a starter for the Crimson. The Pittsburgh, Penn. native and graduate of Upper St. Clair, Chrissis (6’0’’, 195) was a two-way starter for a 16-0 championship team and was also selected to play in the prestigious Pennsylvania East-West All Star Game. So far, Chrissis has impressed many upperclassmen with his dedication...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Corps Steps Up in Time of Hurt | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...like Ohio and Pennsylvania—that are falling behind in the new economy. But any victory they might win in this way is really quite Pyrrhic from an ideological standpoint: The yuppified Democrats would abandon labor unions and economic populism altogether, marginalize civil rights, and attract middle-to-upper class whites with a boring but effective message of competent governance. This strategic shift would only ignite another culture war, one perhaps just as divisive, fueled by the Oedipal resentment of pseudo-bohemian youth against their suburbanite parents. Given the choice, I’d choose the Confederate flag...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Virginia Is For Others | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

Countering a charge that upper-class tax increases would hurt the economy, Joe Biden launched like a mad bus driver into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops—the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: In a Nutshell | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...walk from Adams,” she says that she may return after sections are over: “it might be a good place to study during exams because the couches are so comfy.” Elements such as interior bridges that overlook from an upper story connect to a lounge area below. “It’s almost like a hill town as you move through the building itself,” Hartman says. The expansive glass walls make the outside landscape a backdrop for the building’s buzz of activity, though they...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Science Building Goes North By Northwest | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

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