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...Harvard rock band Start, Go! is warming up on stage. Over the lively buzz of conversation, and with the smell of french fries in the air, the five band members jam on their instruments and adjust sound levels.Finally, 20 minutes after the show was slated to begin, the black-clad lead singer, Chris XX. Powers, steps up to the microphone. “Hello everybody! How are you all doing tonight?” he says. The audience responds enthusiastically.Powers announces that the first song they will perform, entitled “Honest,” will be available...
...Israel will call off its ground assault only if the Israeli envoy now in Cairo, Amos Gilad, returns with an iron-clad promise that Egypt or an international force can effectively stop Hamas' border traffic in weapons and medium-range rockets that are capable of striking deep into Israel. "We won't end the Gaza operation without some kind of suspension of the arms smuggling," one senior Israeli official told TIME. "The next phase is inevitable." Since the Israeli offensive began, the number of rockets fired by Hamas has tapered off from nearly 100 a day to around...
...after China announced a major offensive to combat online pornography, Thailand publicized another Internet crackdown, in which local authorities had blocked 2,300 websites. Their alleged offenses? No, not images of skimpily clad women of the kind that can be found in any one of Bangkok's ubiquitous entertainment districts. Instead, these websites were banned because of material that was deemed insulting to the country's beloved royal family...
...Coming just as the wedding and party season was starting up, the brutal Mumbai attacks last month (which devastated a more famous Taj Mahal hotel in that city) have led to heightened security measures, which are proving to be an enormous inconvenience for high society. Cars carrying designer-clad, bejeweled guests have to stop to let security guards peek under the hood and into the back compartment. That done, all baggage must be passed through X-Ray scanners - suitcases containing wedding outfits and jewelry, wedding gifts wrapped in glittering paper, even personal handbags. It feels more like an airport than...
...while the bullets are still flying. It's just too dangerous," says Eladio Cota, a boisterous 32-year-old paramedic. "It's hard, but those are the rules." By the time their ambulance made its way down the bumpy unpaved roads, it was too late. Masked, black-clad police stood somberly next to a line of yellow tape as soldiers pulled up in green humvees, fingers at the triggers of their mounted machine guns. Behind the tape, two twisted bodies sprawled on the dirt street--the latest victims of the drug-related bloodshed that thus far has claimed an unprecedented...