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...attempts to get subscription revenue, which were based on the (I think flawed) premise that it should charge for the paper's punditry rather than for its great reporting. (Author's note: After publication the New York Times vehemently denied that their thinking was influenced by outside considerations; I accept their explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save Your Newspaper | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...people who lived on the two kings' 162 "chit mahals," or paper palaces. Their villages, caught on the wrong side of the border, are now small islands of India surrounded by Bangladesh or vice versa. Elsewhere in this same stretch of border are villages that simply refuse to accept the lines drawn by Radcliffe's pen. New Delhi backs those that want to stay in India, despite the legal claim of Bangladesh, and Dhaka does likewise. There are 1,696 acres (690 hectares) of these "adverse possessions," where India and Bangladesh effectively occupy each other's territory. That means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Great Divide | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Israel was particularly disturbing because, despite massive damage and crushing human misery, the violence will not solve a thing for either side [Feb. 2]. The Oslo accords outlined a mutually agreeable vision of a two-state solution. The difficulty is that each side has an intractable minority that will accept nothing short of everything it wants. Until each side makes an absolute commitment to controlling its own hard-liners--whatever it takes--I do not see the conflict ever ending. Richard Jepson, SEQUIM, WASH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...that the BRA and Harvard don’t shove us to one side.”But he also expressed doubts that Harvard’s financial situation truly rendered it incapable of following through on its promises in Allston. “The community should not accept that all things slow down,” Houghton said. “You have the resources, you have the ability, and we would like you to improve the community now.”—Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Chance of Delay Worries Allston | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Lefebvrites, a throwback movement that uses the Latin-rite Mass and shuns any attempt to have dialogue with other religions. Although he doesn't agree with all their views - and certainly not Williamson's Holocaust-denying - Benedict had hoped that by undoing the excommunication, the Lefebvrites would eventually accept the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council and become a new force for contemporary conservative Catholicism in the West. (Read "Germany Confronts Its Dark Past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cardinal Behind the Pope's Lefebvrite Flap | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

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