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...opportunity to predict the political history of the future. I figure if I’m wrong, nobody will remember in four years. And if I’m right, nobody will remember in four years, but hey, at least I’ll have it in writing. Curious? Well, here goes...

Author: By Joshua I. Weiner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bush of Tomorrow | 4/11/2001 | See Source »

...RAGS Into the breach: the Peace Corps, which has been trolling this wasteland with ads in a San Francisco weekly reading, "Dot-Com, Dot-Gone? Now it's time to Network with the real world: Peace Corps." Though it seems like a curious population to target, applications in the area to join the corps have doubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Wanted | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...Wednesday is an unprecedented step toward making knowledge and education more accessible—and free—to people across the globe. By offering the materials for over 2,000 courses on the Internet, MIT is encouraging individuals everywhere to supplement their education and to become more intellectually curious. The result will be a better educated public. Furthermore, other institutions may be encouraged to create similar programs by this system of free information. The result could be a massive, worldwide database of scholarly work accessible to everyone, everywhere...

Author: By Ganesh N. Sitaraman, | Title: Editor's Notebook: Let All Access Harvard’s Knowledge | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...fame of the book, a tale of guilt and retribution told through a prism of frank sexuality, is such that many directors wanted to film it, but Nonzee was the producer's first choice after the success of Nang Nak. Jan Dara, the curious but ultimately doomed main character (played by Thai TV actor Eakarat Sarsukh), is abandoned from the start of his life: his mother dies during childbirth and his father brands him a bastard. (The boy's first memory of his father is watching him have sex with a nanny.) At 13, he is thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride & Passion | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...people, who number no more than 3,000 at present, are growing by a couple of hundred a year. They try to avoid attention, but that's difficult in a vehicle that's about as subtle as a parade float. Curious highway patrol officers sometimes pull them over just to get a peek inside. Celebrity hounds, hoping to cadge an autograph off some rock star, sprint across parking lots and bang on the doors, demanding that the occupants identify themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home On The Road | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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