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It is the contention of Sterling Seagrave's compelling new book that the Soongs were, pre-eminently, a family in the Mario Puzo sense. Invoking the Borgias, the author portrays the clan as a gang of thieves most at home in the Wild East, a hugger-mugger underworld where dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild East | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Falk holds that a central issue between the schools was Jewish-Gentile relations. The School of Shammai taught that non-Jews had no hope of eternal life. One of the faction's first acts upon gaining power in the Sanhedrin, the supreme council of the Jews, was to pass a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What Sort of Jew Was Jesus? | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

The eavesdropping reader gets an earful of the couple's private life. There is much about debts and the obstacles that keep Paul from success. There is something about injuries that Liz suffered in a plane crash and oblique details about an international business deal with geopolitical implications. Booth is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Apocalypse in the Living Room CARPENTER'S GOTHIC | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

To many, cricket is a puzzling sport: a game in which players break for tea and matches can last for days yet still end in a draw. But over the past couple of decades, cricket has undergone a revolution?and, more recently, so has its bible, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Haul | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

Lisa Brooks, lecturer in history and literature, presented a paper on James Printer of the Nipmuc tribe, who worked with John Eliot in the basement of the Indian College to produce the nation’s first bible. This Bible was printed in Algonquian, a Massachusetts Indian dialect.

Author: By Joy C. Lin, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Indian Tribe Back in Yard | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

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