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...National Air Traffic Controllers Association, says the practitioners of this unsung profession are being hung out to dry. "We're left trying to hold the system together like MacGyver - with duct tape and scissors and string." TIME caught up with air traffic controller Melvin S. Davis, a 22-year veteran and the facility representative for Terminal Radar Approach Control for Southern California, which serves airports in Los Angeles, Burbank, Ontario, Orange County, Palm Springs and San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Traffic Controller Sounds Alarm | 4/26/2008 | See Source »

...first time all year, things finally came together for the Harvard baseball team. The Crimson combined a relentless offensive attack with two complete-game efforts from its veteran starters, taking 9-3 and 5-2 victories from Brown yesterday at O’Donnell Field. As it completed its first weekend sweep of 2008, Harvard was all smiles. “Better late than never,” senior Brad Unger said. “We’ve had some breaks go against us in the past couple weeks, so it feels good...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Continues Sweep in Second Twinbill | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...it?s possible that this hoo-ha will distract us from the fact that this is not a bad little comedy. People tend to focus on the raunchy premises of Apatow?s work (he produced the film, and Segel, director Nicholas Stoller and some of the actors are veteran collaborators), while ignoring the qualities that made movies like The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Superbad such mighty hits, which is a certain wistfulness and romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Fairly Memorable | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...scored an average of just 1.89 runs per contest in the first nine Ivy league games and the Crimson remains last in the Ivies with a .235 team batting average.The bats have come alive over the past four games, as production has increased up and down the order. One veteran, Vance, has come out his midseason slump by hitting .417 with a .611 on-base percentage in the last four games. Senior Matt Kramer has also become a force and has batted .375, blasted two long balls, and driven in six runs since the first game of the Yale series...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Hitters Ready For Brown | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...Obama's argument is that he can rise above the divisive politics of the '90s - not just the intense partisanship, but the constant posturing and point-scoring in the service of winning a news cycle. He portrays Clinton as a victim of those war-room politics - but also a veteran practitioner. "Senator Clinton learned the wrong lesson, because she's adopted the same tactics," he said last night. He's talking about the culture of perpetual spin, where everything is fair game in the service, including your opponent's kindergarten dreams of grandeur. It's a game of guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats Play Trivial Pursuit | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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