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...infer that Yale sucks, we’re going to try something different. We’ve assembled some numbers that prove, empirically, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Yale sucks. A lot. So, to Harvard students: pat yourselves on the back, like you do every morning. Yalies: weep. THE STATS Rhodes Scholars, 1947-2005 Harvard: 315 Yale: 163 Edge: Harvard, though we wish we had Bill Clinton. Affiliated Nobel Prize Winners Harvard: 75 Yale: 23 Edge: Harvard; world peace. Number of sitting Supreme Court Justices educated Harvard: 6 Yale: 1 Edge: Harvard, and also a certain Yale alumnus...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: By the Numbers | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

Directed by Michelangelo AntonioniSony Pictures Classic5 starsItalian director Michelangelo Antonioni is undoubtedly among the elect of names that will cause any self-respecting film buff to break down and weep in ecstasy. Probably best-known in the US for his 1966 cult classic, “Blow-Up,” Antonioni masterminded and created films that left artsy boys and girls everywhere rooted to their seats in gloomy rapture. Amazingly though, he opens up the theme of alienation while still rendering his movies accessible to the general public, proving it is possible to stray into the realm of introspection...

Author: By Alexandra M. Fallows, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Passenger | 11/11/2005 | See Source »

...loved. That palace of glass, that heirloom of Radcliffe, eyrie of learning, bastion of browsing, birthdom of our memories, is now left decimated by the faceless hordes of Harvard College, tomes torn up for fancy résumés and paper airplanes. Dark Age gargoyles, awful epigones: Weep, you undergraduates, if you have tears to spill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Groups’ Proliferation And The Conversion Of Hilles | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...reach the broken houses, the landslides and the homeless droves, my translator Shaeeq and I get choked up in a traffic jam-at the head of which is an angry clot of young men banging sticks on the tops of the car that try to pass, while women weep on the verge. "We are not begging, sir, we are not begging," one protester says, with the look of a man who hasn't slept for days. "We want help to remove our dead bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kashmir Aftershocks: The Plight of the Living—and the Dead | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

...After surrendering the city to Ferdinand and Isabella in January 1492, Boabdil left Granada. On his way out, he stopped at a mountaintop to look for the last time at the beautiful city he had lost, and wept. His mother reproved him for his tears: "You do well to weep like a woman for what you could not defend as a man." Carlos Nunez Cleveland

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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