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Even as the Times demeans itself to entertain the blogosphere for a moment, it also apparently yearns for its glory days. Its eccentric brand of nostalgia is manifest: until the McCain story hit the Web, sitting atop the website’s “Most Emailed” list was a story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar...
...said Rollins, who also finished with eight rebounds. “We picked it up when we needed it the most.” Harvard (13-9, 6-2 Ivy) went into the weekend in New York knowing it needed to win both its games to stay atop the Ivy League standings. After Friday’s loss to Cornell, the Crimson was determined to rebound against a hot Columbia (8-14, 5-3) squad, which came into the matchup on a four-game winning streak. Harvard began the game on a mission, scoring the game’s first...
...sits atop the Ivy League standings, the Harvard women’s basketball team appears to be firing on all cylinders. The Crimson (12-8, 5-1 Ivy), the current leaders of the Ivy league and the defending champs, will have to endure a serious threat this weekend as the team begins a crucial stretch of four consecutive league games away from the comforts of Lavietes Pavilion...
...finishes up the first half of its Ivy League schedule this weekend the Crimson currently finds itself engaged in a three-way battle with Cornell and Dartmouth to be the lone team atop the standings...
...shot the A-bomb tests of the 1950s and stories on autism and education, but Allan Grant, a staff photographer for LIFE magazine from the '40s through the '60s, made his name capturing stars. The dashing Grant caught Howard Hughes flying his Spruce Goose in 1947, Richard Nixon atop his house during the 1961 Brentwood-Bel Air fire and the last pictures of Marilyn Monroe alive (shown above). Grant...