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Ghandour and Qabalan had gone missing on Monday, their abandoned car found later in the suburb of Shiyeh. Their disappearance - an ominous echo of the kidnappings and murders of the 1975-1990 civil war - triggered a massive police manhunt. The Ghandour and Qabalan families are both connected to the political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Double Murder in Beirut | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

Within days of taking office, Yeltsin began shaking the complacency of the city's entrenched party élite. He spurned the usual perquisites of public office - the country dacha, the ZIL limousine, the special shops and the insularity of working behind a telephone-covered desk. He and his wife, Naina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Yeltsin: The Man Atop the Tank | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

Prolific actor and activist Ed Asner is accustomed to speaking his mind.Asner recently played the role of William Jennings Bryan in Peter Goodchild’s “The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial,” which was hosted by the Institute of Politics on Monday night. Perhaps best...

Author: By Benjamin C. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Veteran Actor Asner ‘Scopes’ Out Harvard | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

I've grown accustomed to an undercurrent in public policy debates that blames black women for an array of social and cultural failures. Without making distinctions, that racist sentiment casts us all as lazy and drug-addled welfare queens, thoughtless breeders of criminals, and unwed heathens who are sacking the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Who Are the Hos Here? | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

Accustomed to the presence of intellectual superstars around campus, Harvard students barely batted an eyelid yesterday at the prospect of spotting Hollywood celebrities.

Author: By Claire J. Saffitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: '21,' an MIT Story, Shoots at Harvard | 4/10/2007 | See Source »

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