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...Price Is Right, though, that's a different story. Oh, people like the show. They remember fondly how Plinko and the Range Game got them through sick days, newborn nursing, freshman wake-and-bake sessions and periods between jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price Is Righteous | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...Baghdad's al-Dolai district last month shot her husband Amer dead before her eyes and torched all her worldly possessions. And the fear that the killers may come back for her and her two little children prevented her from mourning her husband. "I could not hold a proper wake for him," says the young widow. "He deserved at least that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraq, Every Day Is Memorial Day | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...peak of the Aggro Crag. Though six out of seven days we fall asleep in the basement storage room of some anonymous Yard dormitory feeling like the boy who just placed third to two girls on Global Guts, it’s that seventh day when we wake up in UHS with one of our best buddies in the bed next to us that keeps us happy and sane...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Final Bell Lap: Reflections on Harvard | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a leading civil rights advocate. “Harvard should certainly strive to achieve meaningful diversity in every aspect of its public persona. Given the success of so many other elite institutions, the lower figures are astonishing. It’s a wake-up call...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Fair is Fair Harvard? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

Despite your much-vaunted intellectual superiority, chances are that, whether consciously or not, even you, the enlightened Harvard student, have some ideas about race and who does or does not “look like” your fellow student. Yet, rather than acknowledge any of this, in the wake of the Cabot incident, many people simply accused the concerned ABHW and BMF members of unnecessarily “playing the race card,” and bringing a racial component into a situation that clearly did not merit it. Some even expressed concern that discussion of this sensitive issue...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore | Title: In the Back of Your Mind | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

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