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...that he still harbors presidential pipe dreams, and he appears convinced that a pro-environment agenda is his ticket back into the limelight. But this is wishful thinking. It is also a reckless strategy to pursue if he wishes to remain in public office considering his unpopularity in the Bay State...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Remember the Bay State | 4/22/2007 | See Source »

...frosty Massachussetts Bay, the pilgrims quickly capitalized on this turn of good luck, and in 1636 voted to “give 400 [pounds] towards a schoole or colledge.” New College located in Newtown was established in hopes of training someone to give better names. The renamed Harvard College in the renamed Cambridge went on to serve for the next 370 as a sanctuary and training ground for the preeminent minds of the world: Matt Damon, Natalie Portman, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and the little-known John Adams. The scholars educated themselves in the “core?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Downhill Slope | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

Exhibit A is Transformers, the summer's most anticipated movie event that doesn't end in a number, in which the hero will be played by Peter Cullen, a Canadian voice actor familiar to the teensiest fraction of moviegoers. With Steven Spielberg producing and Michael Bay directing this $150 million effects-ravaganza about dueling alien robot races, the protagonist could have been Will Smith or magazine-cover bait like Justin Timberlake. But Cullen was the voice of the character Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV show, a treasured part of the canon for true fans. (If the phrase "robots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Boys Who Like Toys | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...wake of the Morecambe Bay tragedy, the British government has introduced new regulations to govern the gangmasters' trade. But in local Chinese communities, only a handful of leaders seem prepared to acknowledge the danger of the immigration racket. As Edward Murphy, the director of a refugee support charity in Liverpool explained, "There are four reasons people don't want to mess with these gangs: your limbs." One survivor of the cockle picker tragedy, Lin Guo, gave evidence from behind a screen in the courtroom as his family in China, who live in the same village as Lin Liang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Migrant Labor: Worked to Death | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

Months that David Hicks will serve in an Australian prison, after being held for five years without trial at Guantnamo Bay. He pleaded guilty before a U.S. military commission of providing material support to terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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