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...that time again. Calculate your celebrity intelligence quotient with this week's quiz on Tinsel Town's crop of wheelers, dealers and charmingly irritating philanthropists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 16, 2006 | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...struggle to think of anything to put into a letter that's worth reading. Worse, this place just consumes you. I work 18-20-hour days, every day. The quest to draw a clear picture of what the insurgents are up to never ends. Problems and frictions crop up faster than solutions. Every challenge demands a response. It's like this every day. Before I know it, I can't see straight, because it's 0400 and I've been at work for 20 hours straight, somehow missing dinner again in the process. And once again I haven't written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Letter From Iraq | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...agencies continue to report new bloodshed. Gopvernment-armed Arab Janjaweed militias are launching a fresh assault in Southern Darfur, while opposing Darfuri rebel groups are said to be re-arming in neighboring Chad. If fighting continues, already malnourished farmers won’t be able to harvest their staple crop of millet and Darfur’s four-month-old peace accord will lie in tatters. At this pivotal moment, the international community must offer Sudan one last chance to accept peacekeepers. If that fails, the UN should invoke Chapter VII of its charter to authorize a peacekeeping mission without...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Stop Stalling on Sudan | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

There will be no Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown--not this Halloween. The spring's severe rains and the summer's extreme heat have devastated the 2006 pumpkin crop in the East and much of the Midwest. "There is a real pumpkin shortage," says Jim Geohegan, owner of Sunshine Farm in Sherborn, Mass., who estimates his harvest will be just 12 tons of pumpkins this year, down from the typical 70. Pumpkin prices are up all over the country--in some places as much as 50% higher than they were last fall. And some farmers who run pick-your-own patches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Pumpkin Shortage | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...while one corporation may buy Facebook, another has been using the social networking site to build brand loyalty as a new crop of freshmen enter the College...

Author: By Nan Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Facebook is Poked by Corporate Friends | 9/22/2006 | See Source »

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