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...first sign we were entering a dead zone was the carcass of a camel. Camels can go three weeks without water in the Sahara, so the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones was an ominous sight. We entered a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of giving the usual smiles and waves, the children ducked away. A few minutes later, we crested a rise in the road and were confronted by nine janjaweed horsemen, rifles over their shoulders, white turbans around their heads. We'd gone before they could react, but we were 100 miles from the Sudanese border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather Wars | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...candidate," Milk says in the movie. "The movement is the candidate." That was false modesty. In California he was the movement's star, its producer and director. And Penn dominates the film - not in his usual way, by making brooding seem like a form of higher calisthenics. Perhaps the least homosexual actor around, Penn here reins in his Method bluster to locate the sweetness and vulnerability beneath Milk's assured persona. He becomes this character - surely far from his experience - with no italicizing, no condescension, no sweat. This isn't an impersonation; it's an inhabiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milk: It's Good, and Good for You | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...hopefully constitute up to three-fourths of annual reductions, he added. “Behavioral change means changing the way we make decisions around the infrastructure that we buy, the parameters that we set in our labs, challenging assumptions about the way we do business as usual,” Phillips said. “It has opportunities for reducing our consumption very significantly.” McCarthy spoke on the latest developments in climate science, which he said attest to the increasing threat posed by global warming. “The decisions we make today will very much affect...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Maintain Green Commitment | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...conditions,” Clark said of UMass. “They had a couple tournament games last year just like this, so they had played on it and been successful on it.” Harvard, on the other hand, found it difficult to play its usual brand of technical, counter-attacking soccer.Despite playing into the fierce wind, it was the Crimson who created the better of the chances in the early stages of the second half. Akpan had a shot saved by Simmons, and Stamatis sent a shot wide after co-captain Michael Fucito’s strike...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Golden Goal Moves Crimson to Second Round Matchup | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard, on the other hand, found it difficult to play its usual brand of technical, counter-attacking soccer...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Soccer Beats UMass 1-0 in Overtime | 11/22/2008 | See Source »

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