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A good old-fashioned bench-clearer, in order to defend your teammate or your pride, is a time-honored baseball tradition. Players like Billy Martin made a (good) reputation on being willing to mix it up on the diamond.

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Athletes Throwing Punches, Not Passes | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

(3 of 9) If you'd have asked in the month after 9/11 what the prospects were for going five years without another attack here at home, I don't think anybody would have been willing to give you very good odds -- expected that there clearly was going to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive Interview: Cheney on Elections and Iraq | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

And you look Mr. Hashimi, who is one of the vice presidents, who has lost two brothers and a sister to assassination, just in the last few months. It's very risky business for people to step up over there and take on major political responsibilities. We have to admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive Interview: Cheney on Elections and Iraq | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

Today, Gould-Wartofsky and his coterie are the main voices of Harvard students willing to cause trouble for change—a far cry from Harvard’s history of lots of students standing up for change.

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Down Definitely Not Out | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

Are Americans Suffering Diversity Fatigue? People are willing to be tolerant, but only to a certain point. And from California to the Midwest and Florida, signs of exclusionary thinking are popping up all over.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Being Married Gone Out of Style? | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

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