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...Eighteen years from now an old curtain will rise to expose a production that will pave the path for African and European unification once again. The deep blue color of the Mediterranean Sea will not lose a twinkle, the Strait of Gibraltar will still separate Spain from Morocco, but the underlying sea bed—and possibly Spanish-Moroccan relations—will never be the same again. No, it isn’t a miscalculation of a Pangea Ultima configuration; the governments of Spain and Morocco just agreed to construct an underwater tunnel to connect their rail systems...

Author: By Patrick JEAN Baptiste | Title: Big Dig in the Mediterranean | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...Eighteen years of a lack of failure teaches Harvard students to avoid it at all costs; we become extremely risk-averse. Ironically, classes might teach about the risk-reward relationship, but students who are too afraid to fail can only understand the former part of that relationship after experiencing...

Author: By Nicholas A Molina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Failure of Success | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...North squad has four other Ivy League players, while the South team has Penn midfielder David Cornbrooks. Princeton’s Scott Sowanick is among the North players after the Tigers failed to make the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament for just the third time in the last eighteen years. Princeton fell 9-8 to Georgetown in the tournament’s opening round. Notably absent from the game will be players from Cornell, which is still in the running for the national title. —THE CRIMSON STAFF

Author: By Crimson staff | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Seniors Cohen and Flood tapped for USILA all-star game | 5/22/2007 | See Source »

...other hand, Cheney tells the Saudis that our only plan is to stay the course, leave Maliki in place, hold off a rising Republican revolt againt the war, and run out the clock for the last eighteen months of the Bush Administration, he can only expect the Saudis to continue making plans of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Cheney Needs to Tell the Saudis | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...Chen said. “We tried to find something to keep him busy and earning income. When finding a partner didn’t work out well, I helped take over. Harvard students loved it so much, I decided to stay.” Eighteen years later, after a major fire in 1993 that nearly destroyed the store, several armed robberies, devastating financial losses, and numerous court battles bent on shutting it down, Chen—and Louie’s—was still there. “The store means something...

Author: By Siodhbhra M. Parkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Louie’s Old Owner To Return | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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