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“The golf course played a lot more difficult than it usually is,” Shuman said. “The prevailing wind blew in the opposite direction that it was supposed to.”

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Big 5, Harvard Shares Piece of Sixth | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

Despite what you're thinking, I don't want to be the dictator. That's mostly because I'm already prone to bad haircuts. But also because instead of an actual dictator, I think what we need is to recognize that social mores require government nudges like the ones Bloomberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tough-Love Dictator of My Dreams | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

The war in Afghanistan is at a crossroads. President Obama will soon decide whether to commit more U.S. troops to a conflict that's already on the verge of becoming the longest military action in American history--or perhaps begin to dial back our commitment there. It's been more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window On the War in Afghanistan | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Lepri, like most observers, thinks the move was entirely political. She calls it a show of support for a leader the committee and much of the world believes is taking the U.S. in the right direction - a new survey out earlier this week showed that the U.S. global image had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Was the Nobel Committee Thinking? | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

That doesn't necessarily mean there's no diplomatic solution in the works or that Iran is simply playing for time. What it does mean is that Iran will try to focus the diplomacy on strengthening safeguards against weaponization of nuclear material, rather than on halting the production of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Can the U.S. Take 'Yes, But' for an Answer? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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