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TIME: You got a lot of criticism for being the first late-night host to resume production during the writers' strike. How do you feel now that some of the other late-night hosts are returning? DALY: This strike is brutal. It's been so destructive to so many people's lives. My decision to come back was based on the ultimatum that was put in front of me to either return on December 3 or 75 of my friends, my staff and crew who have been loyal to me, were gonna get fired. That was the only thing...
...night draws near, soldiers huddle in groups, batting away mosquitoes. The political impasse has not shaken their faith in the peace process. Most seem more interested in the victories of the camp's team in a recent intra-PLA women's volleyball tournament than in recalling their brutal triumphs during the insurgency. But when asked about why they joined the Maoists in the first place, they offer up a catalog of social and political ills plaguing Nepal. One describes the rigid caste prejudice that forever stunted his family's ambitions; a woman fighter rails against traditional patriarchies. Another soldier...
...Inspector Chen detective novels. This time, Qiu's hero, a cop and poet, is on the trail of a serial killer who dresses his female victims in tailored qipao dresses - a macabre gesture freighted with political meaning. As in the previous books, the investigation leads Inspector Chen to a brutal legacy from the past, for even the most vicious of Qiu's criminals are victims of China's bloody history. So, incidentally, are many of the people close to the author. "My mother had a nervous breakdown at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and she never really recovered...
...undergraduate education by making course evaluations mandatory. These are the sort of real proposals with real impacts on Harvard life that the Faculty should be privileging over petty pseudo-academic word-brawls. Henry A. Kissinger ’50 once remarked that “academic fights are more brutal than…fights in the real world because the stakes are so low.” The professoriate’s behavior this month has borne his conclusion out in spades. We suggest that the Faculty’s skills might be better employed in actually making material differences...
...years ago, while I was studying Japanese history in college, I discovered just how complicated those feelings could become. That was the year Iris Chang published her seminal book, The Rape of Nanking, about Japan's brutal occupation of the Republic of China's capital in 1937. After reading about the wartime genocide during which hundreds of thousands of Chinese died in a matter of weeks - events commonly referred to as the Nanjing Massacre - I felt a crushing sense of shame...