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...Columbia by at least 18 points, Harvard entered its mid-November matchup with undefeated Penn knowing that the league title rested on the outcome. But just as the pressure mounted for the Crimson, so too did the air pressure at Harvard Stadium. In the midst of a driving rainstorm that soaked the field, the Crimson could not find its footing against a nationally-recognized Quaker defense. Harvard fell, 17-7, to Penn (8-2, 7-0), essentially conceding the Ivy crown...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: No Three-Peat for Football | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...polygamy mess her dolt of a father has gotten her mother into, not the pretty girl. But she's seriously glamorized here: with her hair falling in golden waves she's a Breck girl with a decent brain. These two do have chemistry, and when a sudden rainstorm catches them outside - doesn't it always? - she leaps at Tatum, wraps her legs around his waist and latches on to his luscious lips with hungry desire. Let the consummation begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear John: Another Sparks Weepie | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...recent cover, weekly French newsmagazine Le Point featured a photo of a confounded- looking President Nicolas Sarkozy in a heavy rainstorm with a headline that read what's happening to him? Both the image and the question captured Sarkozy's transformation from a leader who could do no wrong to one whose every move seems to incite opposition or controversy - even among allies. Many of the French President's woes exist because voters are confused about what he stands for. His decisions seem to contradict each other, they complain, and his policies are often ideologically schizophrenic. "For the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicolas Sarkozy: A French Paradox | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...first signs of illness in Suleiman Djarra appeared during a heavy rainstorm a few years ago. The 2-year-old suddenly stopped eating and then developed severe diarrhea, which continued for days, draining him of energy. On the third day, Suleiman's mother Aiseta Traoré carried his listless body to the road outside their village in southern Mali and hitchhiked to the nearest hospital, about 9 miles away. There, she says, a doctor gave her a pack of vitamins and advised her to take the boy home to recover. Hours after Traoré and Suleiman reached their village, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Miracle Mineral | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...devastating rainstorm spawned El Salvador's worst natural disaster in more than a decade, as heavy flooding and punishing mudslides killed at least 160 people in the capital, San Salvador, and the province of San Vicente. The deluge on Nov. 7 and 8 damaged or destroyed at least 2,000 homes--many nestled into hillsides that later gave way--and left much of the country without power or clean water. The low-pressure system also wiped out broad swaths of crops, leaving 10,000 people in need of food aid. Officials fear that the death toll will climb as rescuers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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