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...would be tempting for Washington to dismiss Sunday morning's military overthrow of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as just a minor banana-republic convulsion. But the Obama Administration doesn't have that luxury. Zelaya is a member of the club of left-wing Latin American leaders - and its honcho, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, has already deemed this a hemispheric crisis that will challenge the new north-south bonhomie President Barack Obama established two months ago at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Less than an hour after Honduran military aircraft had whisked Zelaya into apparent forced exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Honduran Coup: How Should the U.S. Respond? | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...lead to lifelong relationships. In other words, when one attractive bonobo male eyes another in a lovely patch of Congo swamp forest, they occasionally kiss and then move on to other oral pleasures, but they don't bother anyone afterward about trying to legalize their right to an open-banana-bar ceremony. In fact, they are likely to move on to girl bonobos: most animals that engage in same-gender sex acts do so only when an opposite-sex partner is unavailable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Animals (and People) Are Gay | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...every line, and that one tall dude was even kinda cute. But the writers of Ivory Tower might need to rethink their plays on verbal titillation: the shoddy attempts at double-entendre ranged from "You only play with your balls when you're worked up" to "Is that a banana in your pants? Because I will peel it for you" to "C'mon girl, give me your biochemical desires." Now we just want to hurl...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Harvard Drama Never Seemed So Real | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...asks himself, “When will I wake up to go to class?” After then cross-referencing those options with his now-only-digital Q Guide, with an eye toward maximizing his grade point average, he settles on Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana as his first step toward the laudable goal of a liberal education. Over the next four years, he will also sign up for The World in 1776, The Images of Alexander the Great, Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde, Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 5 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Mexico.” The city bears many wonders for them—free SUVs and beautiful supermodel girlfriends, among them—but it also brings a host of dangers: corruption, luxury, vices, and unsavory loan sharks. And from the sprawling metropolis of Mexico City to the rural banana-farming communities of the state of Oaxaca, the movie depicts Mexico in a variety of contrasting locales. One great challenge was to film the final soccer match, which is played out in Estadio Nemesio Díez, an old stadium in Toluca, Mexico. “We obviously have...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carlos Cuarón Reunites García Bernal, Luna | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

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