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...won’t ever be able to separate myself from the personalities, the excitement, and the stories that make sports great. Just like my mother, who insists on being told whom to root for whenever a sporting event is on in my home, I find it difficult to watch a game—especially a Harvard game—without my allegiances shining through. Every game I’ve covered for The Crimson has been an exercise in maintaining neutrality, in walking the fine line between knowing the Harvard teams the best I can and realizing that...
...table filled up and a throng of spectators gathered. Demauro rolled double sixes, hard fours, snake eyes, every possible combination of the dice. Some people called out requests and Demauro managed to fulfill them. Players from the nearby blackjack table came over to watch, and then came the casino executives, or as she describes them, "men in dark suits." Demauro and her audience knew they would never witness anything like this again. "There was a woman there, and we happened to catch each other's eyes," Demauro says, "She smiled at me, and I smiled and said...
...goodness sakes." It caused a flurry of complaints from believers but was somewhat overshadowed by the postelection excitement over the incoming President (who would later acknowledge the contributions of atheists to the U.S. in his Inaugural speech, saying "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Hindus and nonbelievers"). (Watch a video "Tony Blair's New Calling...
...Pentagon was good at some things, dreadful at others. It is better now, but there are lives at stake every day. Gates keeps track of those killed and wounded on his watch. He knows the exact numbers. He can get misty talking about the troops he's met downrange, young people the same age as the carefree students he supervised at Texas A&M, "which makes this all so much harder," he says. They - not future fights with China, not last week's tactics in Afghanistan - light up his eyes. He won't be abandoning them anytime soon...
...colder and thinking it'd be safer to leave, but we had to talk into a camera and take a picture of the flag. We were meant to take pictures of seven sponsored items, including the satellite phone, but nobody had enough feeling to do any of that. (Watch TIME's video "Trekking Lebanon's Mountain Trail...