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...Closer now to 80 than 79, the passing on of my remaining vestiges of leadership is more than overdue,” Watson said in a written statement. “The circumstances in which this transfer is occurring, however, are not those which I could ever have anticipated or desired...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Watson Retires After Remarks on Race | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

...most cases still go unreported. The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), established in 2004 to look after the welfare of an estimated 20 million Non-Resident Indians (NRIS), launched a scheme earlier this year to provide counseling and legal and financial aid for Indian wives abandoned abroad. Closer to home, it has published a booklet for women planning to marry émigrés, to help them verify the credentials of their prospective spouses and their families, take proper legal precautions and seek help if things go wrong. "More such cases are being reported since we started disseminating information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Honeymoon's Over | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...reserve. It was cocktail hour, and the families staying at Khem Villas, the 15-room guesthouse opened by Rathore and his wife Usha 2 1?2 miles (4 km) from the park entrance in October 2006, slurped guava juice and pulled their camp chairs closer to the fire to escape the evening chill. Rathore's tiger whodunit featured local farmers who had plowed deep into the tiger's habitat and faraway medicine makers in China and Southeast Asia who paid extravagant bounties for tiger bones and genitals. He introduced his father Fateh Singh Rathore, a former director of the park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Move Over, Maharajahs | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...there (perhaps they consider themselves too intellectual for this plebeian assemblage, or simply want their coffee in the morning and are too good for the dining hall?), it’s clear that Lamont is not best serving their needs. Luckily, there are other options, many of them closer to most of the Houses than Lamont. So this midterm season, if you find yourself with a dire need for a jolt and/or change of scenery, try one of the spots we’ve listed below. We’ve ordered them in descending order, from most likely to inspire...

Author: By Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Out of Lamont and Into Cafés | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...doesn’t offend my sports-fan sensitivities that athletes are resorting to every possible means to success, and it shouldn’t offend yours either. That’s their job. If anything, it should make you feel closer to your favorite athlete. The pervasiveness of steroid use reminds us of something we too often forget about professional athletes: They’re only human...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Steroid Nation | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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