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...tackles per game. Should Dartmouth hope to pull a huge upset over the Crimson, it must improve in all aspects of the offensive game, including controlling the time of possession. With a running game averaging only 47.7 yards per game, this will surely be difficult to accomplish against a veteran Harvard defensive front seven. “The whole thing comes down to execution. We expect [our younger players] to step up, whether it’s making that critical block or good throw,” Teevens said. “We’ve been close enough...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cleaning the Green | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...referee operations. Former NBA coach and general manager Stu Jackson, who ostensibly oversaw the refs in addition to his myriad other responsibilities as the league's executive vice president for basketball operations, is now free to focus on other matters. "We finally have somebody who is just ours," veteran ref Crawford says. "Before, we had people that had 7,000 hats. He's not going to be easy, but he's a leader. And we're dying to be led, to be honest with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can an Army General Whip NBA Refs into Shape? | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

Creating an inspired look from scratch with 24 dollars in 24 hours? For fashion veteran Lucy W. Baird ’10, this is a familiar challenge. Both the defending champion from last year’s FM Fast Fashion Challenge, and an active member of The Vestis Council, a Harvard organization for fashion design Baird is old hat at anything involving fabric and scissors. It’s a Friday afternoon and the clock reads 4 p.m. The designers are given names of famous Harvard alumni on slips of paper as inspiration for the looks they will create. Baird...

Author: By Sha Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lucy W. Baird ’10 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Consider also the case of veteran Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, found guilty on Monday of federal ethics violations for accepting unreported thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts, including a home renovation. Once the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the President pro tempore, Stevens had become over the years one of the most influential men in the Congress...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: More Dirt | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...said "some whites are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate." Congressman John Murtha, who represents a rural swath of Western Pennsylvania, put it even more bluntly earlier this month when he called his region "racist" in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The veteran Democrat later backed off just a bit, noting that the district used to be "really redneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How McCain Thinks He Can Win Pennsylvania | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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