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Furthermore, even though The Game “sells out” every year, the stadium never reaches maximum capacity. As alumni, visitors, and students come to The Game for reasons other than football, many visit end up visiting their seats for only a few minutes. Knowing this, the athletics department should increase the number of tickets sold, especially those for undergraduate students...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, Alix M. Olian, and Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Annotations: Views of The Game | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...volatile patriarch who attempts to reassert his status and masculinity against a tide of circumstances out of his control. Achebe’s most extraordinary feat in the novel is his ability to communicate Okonkwo’s poignant experience to Western audiences. But Achebe’s visit to Harvard was not only a celebration of his first novel, but also a celebration of his legacy. Since penning “Things Fall Apart” at 28, the writer has had a prolific career as a public intellectual, outspoken activist, professor, and postcolonial patriarch. He has written multiple...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chinua Achebe Explores Legacy After 50 Years | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...from the outside world. Finally Zhang learned that his hometown had been flattened. "Everybody cried, but I couldn't cry," he says. "What would people think?" The next day Zhang trekked six hours to get help. It would be more than a month until he was able to visit the remains of his home. His wife's and daughter's bodies were never found. "Now I put all of myself into my work," he says. "The dead, there's nothing you can do for them. All we can do is make Beichuan better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising From the Rubble of the Sichuan Quake | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...since President Lee Myung Bak took office in February, relations with Pyongyang have again deteriorated. In July, when a South Korean housewife was shot during a trip to North Korea's Mount Geumgang, a symbol of reconciliation, South Korea suspended tours there and hasn't allowed its citizens to visit since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Koreas, the Return of Balloon Diplomacy | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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