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...mini-republics that the U.S.S.R. released like so many Tootsie Rolls from a piñata in the 1990s have not exactly turbocharged the Central Asian economy. And while Pakistan may have seemed like a nifty idea around the time they cut the ribbon, it's been plagued by troubles pretty much ever since - including the, uh, secession of Bangladesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enough With the New Countries | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...That is, unless you exploit it like Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who used Taylor’s murder as an opportunity to bash his favorite piñata: hip-hop. Whitlock has a long history of railing against gangster rap and the element of black culture it represents—the “Black KKK,” as he calls it. To Whitlock, the evolution of this genre is a cause of black Americas’ high crime rates and low socioeconomic status. He puts some of the blame for Taylor’s death, as well...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Blame Canada! | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

Twenty gallons of chili, a bulldog piñata, and a “Crunk Clock” will have to compensate for a slower-than-usual flow of alcohol at the tailgate before this Saturday’s Harvard-Yale football game...

Author: By Aditi Banga and Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Houses Prep For Tailgate Revelry | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

Pforzheimer, for one, will provide 20 gallons of chili, made by a Pfoho resident and chili-cooking champion. Cabot is working on putting together a competition with its sister college at Yale, Trumbull, possibly including a bulldog-shaped piñata...

Author: By Aditi Banga and Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Houses Prep For Tailgate Revelry | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...someone who likes to invent what the future of science and technology looks like," Allen says. Grandiose maybe, except that he and a Seattle school pal did that once before. The ATA could grow to 350 dishes, but it may not have to. If it gets us asking questions that go beyond the usual noise of the news, it has done its job even before its switch is thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Up | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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