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...took a job teaching English at the U.S. embassy. She woke up well before dawn throughout her life. Now she went into her son's room every day at 4 a.m. to give him English lessons from a U.S. correspondence course. She couldn't afford the élite international school and worried he wasn't challenged enough. After two years at the Catholic school, Obama moved to a state-run elementary school closer to the new house. He was the only foreigner, says Ati Kisjanto, a classmate, but he spoke some Indonesian and made new friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of Barack Obama's Mother | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...Crimson editorial writer) provide thoughtful anchors for the play, ruminating on all of Stoppard’s weighty subjects while also being able to interject a barb when the opportunity arises. It’s remarkable that Stoppard’s play, first performed in 1993 at the dawn of the computer era, does not seem dated by the exponential leaps in technology that have occurred since that date. Stoppard frequently uses the computer as an analogue to the themes of entropy and complexity, and in an age when computers have become so thoroughly integrated into every aspect of life...

Author: By Davis S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stoppard's 'Arcadia' Works | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...receiving them. Still, the farming industry and its lobbyists won’t go without a fight, and the deeply ingrained subsidy programs will require a struggle to dismantle. Farming has a particularly strong valence in our national consciousness. The image of the courageous yeoman farmer, rising at dawn to milk the cows seems as American as apple pie or corn-based ethanol. As Ralph Grossi, president of the American Farmland Trust, told the Wall Street Journal, farmers are perceived as “hard working, salt of the earth, a core part of our culture.” Perhaps...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Harvesting Cash | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...which the opposition was allowed to campaign more or less freely, suggested the regime was loosening its grip, or was at least divided and unable to repress. The days after March 29 saw further hopeful signs. The opposition declared victory, and Tsvangirai was even moved to declare the dawn of "a new Zimbabwe founded on restoration, not on retribution, equality not discrimination, love, not war, tolerance not hate." He even said, "After Saturday 29th of March, 2008, Zimbabwe will never be the same again." Unfortunately for Zimbabwe, Mugabe and the Zanu-PF seem merely to have been digesting their defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe Plays for Time | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard Pilgrim Health Care or the Harvard University Group Health Plan. The two retained plans already cover over 99 percent of physicians included in the Blue Cross and Tufts plans, and Harvard Pilgrim has already begun trying to recruit the physicians that don’t overlap, according to Dawn M. Socha, Harvard’s director of benefits. “We are hopeful no one will need to change providers as a result of this,” Marsden said, “and we are virtually certain that few, if any, people will be obliged to change...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Health Plans To Be Pared Down | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

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