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...choices. Good girl versus crazy girl. Cute Jewish girl versus pill-popping ADHD club chick. Business partner’s daughter (will buy you leather gloves) versus hot neighbor (miscarriage-prone). Sex in his parents’ apartment after 90 seconds of small talk versus sex against a brick wall outdoors in November. Vinessa Shaw versus Gwyneth Paltrow. If only all of us were faced with such difficult decisions.Leonard Kraditor (a mumbling, grumbling Joaquin Phoenix, who apparently walked right off the set and onto “Late Night”) starts off as a mopey loser living at home...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Lovers | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...street, who called him "the dictionary." In his brown blazer and sweater, Fufuli did indeed have a professorial air. Framed by dusty stacks of books tall as himself (between Arabic volumes: John Le Carré, Macroeconomic Theory, Richard Nixon's Leaders), he conducted slow business out of a small brick storefront, which, he said, his father opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vanishing Booksellers of Baghdad | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...locker rooms in attack mode, yet the Crimson was able to supplement inside scoring with perimeter target practice as well. Harvard shot 49 percent from the field overall and 44 percent on 4-of-9 from downtown. Columbia shot just 37 percent from the field and were brick masons from beyond the arc, shooting 0-10 from three point range...

Author: By Justin W. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Drops Lions in Physical Contest | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...carved from the hill that exposes a cross section riddled with holes - like an ant farm pressed between panes of glass. He shows how looters dug wells, then tunneled horizontally when a promising layer was reached. (Looters, like archaeologists, know to look for signs such as ash or brick flooring for evidence of human habitation.) One such gallery has collapsed, so that it now seems just a jagged scar interrupting the smooth transition of history's layers. "It's like you are trying to read a book and some of the pages are missing," says Marquis. "Here we have lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Treasure Trove for Archaeologists | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...problem is, the middle way has hit a brick wall. Even the Dalai Lama recently said he had "given up" on negotiating with the Chinese and hinted he might step down, fearing that his position "is only becoming an obstruction instead of helping find a solution to the Tibet issue." Yet as an international celebrity and a deity to his people, he is the only person who can shift the equation. And the issue is pressing; he turns 74 in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pain of Tibet | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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