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Liberals-and being a member of the media, I of course count myself among them-can be a pretty funny bunch. When we are sympathetic to a controversial work of pop culture, we invoke the artist's right to create in an climate of total freedom, whatever feelings of outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Hypocrisies | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

This is the Namu familiar to many Chinese, a crass celebrity famous for her fame. Her self-promotion so irks her own people in their remote homeland at the foot of the Tibetan plateau that many insist she is not Mosuo at all, just a mixed-blood descendant of 13th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving the Motherland | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

This veteran Liberal member of parliament from Manitoba may wear his Crimson colors proudly, but he is not an actual descendant of John Harvard himself. In fact, he’s named after an airplane.

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: John Harvard, Canadian Parliamentarian | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

If Bush were to promote a lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy, many of the suspicions that attach to his policies would melt away. The power of the U.S. is too great and its influence too pervasive for it ever to be loved by all. But an America that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, Who's Next? | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

Henry Adams took a decidedly negative outlook on his time at Harvard, writing, “Four years of Harvard College, if successful, results in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark has been stamped.” His descendant Joe Scott hopes to leave something bigger...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Legacy: The Presidential Progeny | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

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