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...streets to join them. But as dusk approached, the crowds dispersed again. Shops in the Sule area had been shuttered all afternoon. In a city where the streets are vibrant and bustling until late, most residents had taken refuge at home. No one wanted to be out after dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma's Agony | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

Sometime in the 22nd century (if we get there as a species), schoolchildren in a new dark age will read about all the sirens going off at the same time--"ice melting, species vanishing and cities choking the people who live in them"--and no one in power giving these life-or-death matters the full attention they deserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Oct. 8, 2007 | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...happy to cross borders and ethnic lines in search of a tee time. In a symbolic gesture indicative of golf's role in the region, the Croatian government said land used by the army will be donated for golf courses. In Europe's new century, finally dawning on this dark corner of the Continent, there is a reasonable hope that the military has no need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Croatia's Approach Shot | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...Reverend Green” that he finally confronts himself and realizes his nature: “Now I think it’s alright to feel inhuman / Now I think that’s alright, yeah.” It’s about as dark and disillusioned as the band’s lyrics have sounded; but when “sometimes you don’t know yourself,” as the band says, you have to let people in. Animal Collective does this through the highly accessible “Fireworks,” placing...

Author: By Evan L. Hanlon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Animal Collective | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...still manages to be captivating and hilarious, chapter after chapter. The plot begins simply enough. Satan decides to visit Moscow, arrives, and shortly thereafter decapitates one of the first people he meets—a man who, like all dutifully atheistic Soviets, refuses to believe in the Dark Lord’s existence. With a supernatural and motley crew that includes a scantily clad witch-maid and an enormous, talking, sarcastic cat named Behemoth, Satan spreads chaos throughout the city, befuddling bureaucrats and toying with the populace’s deepest yearnings for consumer goods. Meanwhile, a character known only...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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