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...They’re so brave—they’ve never left the slum and now they’re going to college and they weren’t afraid,” said Jain. “It was unbelievable...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Testing for Tuberculosis in The Slums of New Dehli | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...middle age, Hoboken, N.J.’s finest trio finds itself being pulled in disparate directions. “Popular Songs,” like Yo La Tengo’s last album—the colorful, horn-filled 2006 pastiche “I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass”—touches on an array of different genres and styles. The middling songs on “Beat Your Ass” were often indistinguishable and therefore inoffensive; the same cannot be said for “Popular Songs...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yo La Tengo | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...Letizia always had personality, even when she was just a journalist," says Jesus Maria Montes-Fernandez, a prominent fashion journalist in Spain. "But when she first married Felipe she was too fearful of her new role, too afraid to make a mistake. Her clothes then were very strait-laced." (See the legacy of Lady Diana, another bride who learned to become a princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letizia of Spain: How to Look Like a Princess | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...Grassley believes the raucous town meetings of August made it clear that Obama now faces something far larger than mere doubts about health-care reform. "I was expecting a lot of anger, but what really surprised me about the town meetings was the fear that people were expressing - afraid for the country. Health care was a big issue, yes, and it took up most of the questions at the town meetings. But it seemed to me it was the straw that broke the camel's back. People were bringing up the stimulus bill not doing any good and [costing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Grassley Turned on Health-Care Reform | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...afraid of heights as a child. Conquered the fear at age 11, when he was locked out of his parents' seventh-floor apartment and climbed the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alain Robert, the "French Spiderman" | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

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