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What won Beckett his Nobel Prize - the grim death gargling at you from every page - may also keep audiences away; they think he's a sanctified chore, homework for Mensa members. But as McGovern, Fiennes and Neeson demonstrated, with their considerable artistry, Beckett was a mesmerizer, a spellbinder, who held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samuel Beckett: Dead Laughing | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

The war on terror has made Yemen's gun problem a global issue - evidence suggests that Yemeni arms dealers have supplied Islamic militants in Saudi Arabia and beyond. After 9/11, the Yemeni government, a U.S. ally, cracked down on the local gun trade and began buying back guns from tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'If You Kill All the Christians ...' | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

I no longer check my cell phone’s digital display because knowing the hour doesn’t really do me much good. I have no choice here but to live, not by minutes but by moments. In the States, time feels like it’s bearing...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Time Out of Time | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

He woke up in a bed at a Gaza hospital. The wall above his head in the intensive care unit is plastered with the faces of dead Palestinian fighters that supporters believe have gone on to paradise. Yusef was nearly one of them, but he survived - minus a leg that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza's Storm Before the Calm | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

Fifty years later, in the fall of 2007, Harvard undergraduates beginning their studies of the humanities or social sciences cracked open the works of Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, and Michel de Montaigne. Bending the spines of heavy books purchased from the Coop or checked out of Lamont...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Let the Subaltern Speak | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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