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...students at our favorite Medford safety school seem to have had some trouble accepting and adhering to this age-old social decree—prompting administrators to lay down some intimacy rules...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu | Title: And You Thought Harvard Was Puritan... | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...people of Australia, a country that bears many cultural, geographic, and demographic similarities to the U.S., realized the problems surrounding low voter turnout and introduced compulsory voting in 1925. All men and women of voting age are legally required to register at a polling station on the day of elections and have their opinion counted. The result is a turnout that is consistently greater than 90 percent...

Author: By Jaykar R. Panchmatia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The People’s Vote | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

Zazi was born in Afghanistan's war-torn border region, moving to Pakistan at age 7 and then to New York in 1999. He spent just nine months living in Aurora, initially moving in with an aunt and uncle who own a brick townhouse in a manicured development at the edge of the parched Colorado prairie. More recently, he moved into a nearby two-bedroom apartment, which he shared with his father and two brothers until they were evicted shortly before the arrests. With more than $50,000 in credit-card debt, Zazi declared bankruptcy last March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror on the Prairie: Zazi's Life in Colorado | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...another part of town, Andrew Byrne, 24, is handing out bright green lollipops to passersby. Byrne is a member of Generation Yes, an independent, pro-Lisbon campaign group targeting young voters. In the last referendum, 18-to-25-year-olds had the highest proportion of no votes of any age-group. Handing a leaflet to an undecided young mother, Byrne tells her that the treaty will help tackle human-trafficking and improve energy security in Europe. The woman appears unmoved. "I voted no last time because of militarization," she says. "And I don't think the government has done anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E.U.'s Future: Back in the Hands of Irish Voters | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...questioning his political credentials and suggesting he has been colluding with the "manipulators" - that is, opposition leaders like Mousavi and former President Mohammed Khatami. If history is any guide, the regime likely has the upper hand here. Ayatullah Khomeini's most promising son, Ahmad, died under suspicious circumstances at age 49. He had become critical of his father's successor as Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, in the mid-1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has the Iranian Regime Forsaken Khomeini? | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

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