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Guilt gives way now to fear. It is only autumn, but the annual question has begun to be asked: What are people like her doing on the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When Liberty Really Means Neglect | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Shared Confucian values are most obvious in the many paintings of the "four noble plants": plum blossoms, which flower before the snows melt, symbolize the hope of spring; chrysanthemums, the hardiness to survive in autumn; orchids, refinement and modesty; and bamboo, loyalty, because it bends but never breaks. This steadfastness is celebrated in an exquisite silk hanging scroll, Bamboo Blowing in the Wind by Yi Chong (1541-1626), a royal prince who is considered the greatest Korean painter of bamboo. You can almost feel the breeze as the dark leaves float away from their own ethereal shadows, an effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brush With Perfection | 5/30/2005 | See Source »

...while Kennedy admires his bandmate’s lyrics. “We gravitated toward each other” after meeting at a jazz show in Winthrop House, remembers Wilkis. The duo released their first album, “A + P Rocks,” last autumn...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Harvard: School of Rock? | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

Just the sound of St. Louis connotes better times, when the Cardinals were shared property of the Western states. And this autumn's monopoly especially brought back 1944, when the fall classic kept entirely to Sportsman's Park. Though the Cardinals won and the Browns lost as both were forever expected to do, the sweetest memory in St. Louis is of a series without boos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Gracious War Between the State | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Five hours have passed since the riders left Twin Buttes. A hot autumn sun has burned away the dawn's biting chill, and the cowboys have gathered about 100 head of cattle from among the cedars and hillocks. Knox watches as they herd the cattle into a dusty pen. On horseback the cowpunchers separate five long-eared calves that escaped spring branding and guide them, along with their mothers and a few strays, into a smaller enclosure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Cowboy Poets | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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