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McCareins’ predilection for pick-offs could prove troubling to a Crimson pass game that has thrown 12 interceptions between sophomore quarterbacks Liam O’Hagan and apparent number-two Richard Irvin. In last week’s game against Lafayette, however, O’Hagan didn’t slip up, throwing for 207 yards and three touchdowns without an interception...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Going for Two | 10/21/2005 | See Source »

...terrorism and extremism in the Arab world." But he points out that the newspaper has also been willing to publish interviews with numerous Islamic militant leaders to give these groups a chance to air their views. "We have been thinking hard and fast," he says. "I really did not pick a fight with anyone. I was very surprised that we received those letter bombs. We must have hit a nerve, but we don't know whose." (One possibility: an extremist group whose views Khazen refused to publish.) Regardless, the injured party seems to feel that the insults spelled death. Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO RETURN ADDRESS | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...telephone and recording etiquette includes advice on ending a tedious call (hang up when you are speaking, not the bore) and disconnection (the person who placed the call should re-call). This seems obvious, as does the reminder that an answering machine means you don't have to pick up on every call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NOTES ON NETIQUETTE | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...high. Meanwhile, artists in other countries were leading film to a robust maturity: Ingmar Bergman in Sweden, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in France, Akira Kurosawa in Japan, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni in Italy, Luis Bunuel in Spain. As each director found a constituency, U.S. distributors would pick up his earlier films, as well as other movies from the same country. Americans got an informed sampling from the world's film banquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FELLINI GO HOME! | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...Neil—got fewer votes than Dave.Which of the following is not the name of a recent Harvard football standout? Kevin Rogus, Carl Morris, and Dante Balestracci.A sharp-shooter for the basketball team, stud wide receiver, and fierce middle linebacker, respectively. All three athletes had four freshmen pick them out (two simply didn’t have a clue). The budding statisticians and sociologists among the readership will surely be quick to point out the bias of self-selection present in this study: those most interested in Harvard athletics would be those who took the time to answer...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Testing Students on Harvard Athletics | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

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