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Money can enable satisfying acts of revenge. The wronged board member returns to acquire and dismember the company; the lottery winner leaves scheming relatives out of a will. Or how about the once trampled nation that can now afford to buy back looted artifacts in a display of economic might as much as national pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bidding for Pride | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...back in rebuilding mode after finishing in last place in the 18-team field. After Saturday morning’s closing round, the Crimson’s combined three-round score of 902 put the team four shots behind 17th-place St. Thomas Aquinas and 72 shots behind the winner, University of West Florida, which shot a team score of 10-under. Harvard occupied the rear of the field from the very beginning of the tournament by shooting an opening-round 301 on Friday morning, good only for 12th place. Needing a surge on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Golf Brings Up Rear at Bethpage | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

...award-winner, Frances Jensen—a professor of neurology at Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital—said that NIH usually requires some preliminary findings before it funds research, which makes these grants unique...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NIH Grants Offer Funding Relief | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...Kant said that acting ethically means treating other people as ends in and of themselves, not merely as means to our own desires. But that's exactly how fans treat coaches and players. We want them to win because when they do, we bask in the glory. Supporting a winner makes us feel like winners. A few years back, an Indiana University researcher showed that when Indiana won, avid fans actually grew more confident that they could get dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil in Every Fan | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...Kant said that acting ethically means treating other people as ends in and of themselves, not merely as means to our own desires. But that's exactly how fans treat coaches and players. We want them to win because when they do, we bask in the glory. Supporting a winner makes us feel like winners. A few years back, an Indiana University researcher showed that when Indiana won, avid fans actually grew more confident that they could get dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil in Every Fan | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

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