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...year-old leader of the liberal Free Democratic Party doesn't exactly radiate humor. Asked what motivates him, he answers solemnly, "I burn internally." "He lives for politics," confirms close friend Hartmut Knüppel, who has known Westerwelle since they met through a youth wing of the FDP almost three decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guido Westerwelle, Germany's Mittelman | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

FlyBy did a lazy-Sunday lookover, and it appeared that about 30-40 percent of the chairs were full, and almost entirely by non-Harvard students. (We could tell because they were...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: Chairs in the Hood | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

Billed as the country’s first student think tank, the Roosevelt Institution was founded jointly at Stanford and Yale in 2004, as a memorial to the progressive policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. It now consists of almost 7,000 undergraduate members and over 70 college chapters nationwide...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Political Group Opens Chapter | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...phenomenon. In a new study published in the Sept. 4 Science, researchers led by Darrell Kaufman at Northern Arizona University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research constructed a climate record of the Arctic over the past 2,000 years, and found that the region had been cooling for almost all of that time period. Summer temperatures in the Arctic cooled by an average of 0.2 degrees C each thousand years, thanks chiefly to wobbles in the Earth's orbit around the sun that gradually reduced the amount of sunlight hitting the Arctic. Left unchecked, the Arctic would have continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Studies of the Arctic Suggest a Dire Situation | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...Europe's last closed frontiers may finally be reopening, marking the end of almost a century of animosity between the two countries that stems from the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish army. On Sept. 1, the two countries launched six weeks of negotiations aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations. The goal is for both parliaments to ratify a deal by Oct. 14. The border could then reopen by the end of the year. (See pictures of the streets of Istanbul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey and Armenia: Thaw in a Century-Old Feud? | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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