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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...much of the world, President Nicolas Sarkozy enjoys a reputation for being something of a diplomatic dynamo. In China, the energetic French leader has a strikingly different standing: he is Beijing's favorite international whipping boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China Keeps Picking on Sarkozy | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...story of Narcissus, a beautiful young boy drowns in a river after becoming enraptured with his own reflection. This story would likely be more relatable to Harvard students if one were to replace that physical reflection with Narcissus’s résum?...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: The Vanity in Veritas | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...George, Boy •trial of for allegedly manacling a male escort to bedroom wall and beating him with a chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...pistol atop a cupboard before lying down for a nap. A short time later, his frantic wife burst into the room, saying their six-year-old son had hold of the gun. Then a shot rang out. Rushing outside, the couple found their youngest child, a six-months-old boy, dead from a bullet wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing the Beat | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...from the janjaweed horsemen galloping around in his head. He asked if I could give him a lift to his home village. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he said. Watching him wander off, Diar told me Adam was obsessed by memories of when he was a boy, when the rains were good, the fruit was plentiful and the fighting just an occasional hazard. Sometimes, when the headaches were bad, he disappeared for days. Blinded by visions of plenty, he would run out into the desert and toward the war. Heading home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather Wars | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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