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...once again doing what the rest of the country shoulda coulda done but didn't. After Hurricane Katrina, the secret was out that government alone would never be able to manage big disasters. First responders like firefighters and police make up less than 1% of the population. They cannot be everywhere--or even most places. So the vast majority of rescues are done by regular people. The problem is, regular people have almost never been intelligently engaged in emergency planning--until, perhaps, now. "It's a brilliant move," says Wendy Spencer, head of Florida's volunteerism commission. "Others will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Soldiers | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...concludes by again taking on the dispassionate voice of the encyclopedist. After Claudia’s death, he tells us in the most understated yet poignant manner, Luz “crashed into a gas station. The explosion was considerable.”But that literary urge cannot be kept out of the book. Maybe Claudia is both right and wrong: Literature cannot transcend politics, but politics cannot escape literature. It’s a truth that Bolaño lived when he led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets called the “infrarealists...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Darkness Lurks Behind Humor of 'Nazi Literature' | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...grounds that certain information is dangerous and can have adverse affects upon the minds of those exposed to it. Musharraf and other government leaders, however, would do well to remember the words of John Milton, penned in 1643 in a treatise against British censorship: “Knowledge cannot defile […] if the will and conscience be not defiled. Bad books […] to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.” All people, regardless of geographic and cultural bias, have a basic capacity...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Life, Liberty, and SNL Skits | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

Turkey's military has said it has killed 230 PKK rebels in the current operation while Turkish losses stood at 27, but the casualty reports cannot be independently confirmed. The conflict has killed up to 40,000 people since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey's Anti-War Diva | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...students in introductory classes. It has no study rooms, no offices. On a growing campus of roughly 25,000 students, the building, officials argue, is obsolete. Given its design, says Melanie Magara, NIU's assistant vice president for public affairs, "You can't remodel it. It cannot be repurposed. It's just a shell. It didn't take too long to come to the conclusion we needed to raze the building and perhaps build a new one." But, some observers ask, might it be possible - and more cost-efficient - to convert the two lecture halls into a collection of smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Remember a Massacre | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

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