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Here's a diagnosis: Harvard students suffer from an unfortunate mental disposition to conflate work and play. Now, some of you may be pshaw-ing and pulling out your tattered lexicons to inform us that, no, you know the difference between those two words, thank you very much. Fair enough...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: A Paradox We Can All Live By | 9/27/2009 | See Source »

Bing's ability to focus on the long view is a consistent theme of his biography. He grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of a contractor father and a homemaker mother. After graduating from Syracuse University, Bing played nine seasons for the Detroit Pistons. During that time, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayor Dave Bing: Can He Stop the Slide in Detroit? | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

Russians perennially fear that Russia will fall apart. The country is so big and so unwieldy that it seems always on the verge of implosion - like a bolshaya deryevna, or big village, riddled with ethnic fissures and political upheavals, always teetering between calm and chaos. Hence the appeal of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View from Khabarovsk: Russia's End | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya believes he put his adversaries' backs to the wall this week. He may, however, have painted himself into a corner as well. By sneaking back into Honduras on Sept. 21 and taking refuge inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the exiled leader - deposed in a June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honduras Quagmire: An Interview with Zelaya | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

India's space agency has taken its share of hits over the years. When it was set up in the 1960s, the Bangalore-based organization's very existence was questioned by critics - both inside and outside India - who said a poor country should worry about feeding hungry millions before firing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water on the Moon Buoys India's Space Program | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

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