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...escape punishment, because they crossed a border that most of the world doesn't recognize. In January 2005, Elmas Guzelyurtlu, a Turkish Cypriot businessman living near Nicosia in the southern part of Cyprus, was awoken by intruders. They took him, his wife[an error occurred while processing this directive] and 15-year-old daughter into a waiting car, drove them to a deserted highway pull-off, and shot them in the head. The murderers then fled across the "green line" that has divided Cyprus since 1974. For a moment, it seemed that justice might take its course. Turkish-Cypriot police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holes in a Hard Line | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

Picking Tim Burton to direct “Bones,” then, works well, since both he and the Killers are mainstream populists masquerading as alternative visionaries. The song’s bone imagery plays into Burton’s undead fetish, and he directs a tediously straightforward video...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popscreen: The Killers | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...exactly what went wrong. One possibility was that the HCC was unable to properly assess student interest and had picked an unpopular artist.A proposed remedy for this dilemma was to democratize the HCC, or as a Nov. 2, 2005 Crimson staff editorial put it, to “institute direct elections of the commission.”For the time being though, the HCC doesn’t see the need to make that change.“We don’t believe the HCC should be democratized,” says Chair of Promotions Lauren P.S. Epstein...

Author: By Andrew Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: With A Little Help From Their Friends | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

Similarly, while Harvard Law School (HLS) offers international students direct loans through the HLS Loan Program, the CitiAssist loan through the Harvard Education Loan Program and Citibank Stafford loans are also advertised prominently on the HLS Web site, with this statement in small print: “There are many other lenders (such as Access Group, Nellie Mae, and Wells Fargo) available for your Stafford loans that we are not able to outline here...the incentives vary according to the lender...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Flirting with Financial Aid | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...been converted to Christianity, like Saul on the road to Tarsus. Their year-end tributes simply recognized that Christmas had already made its transition from holy day to holiday. It had become fully secularized, into a time of genial sentiment and credit-card debt - none of which had any direct connection to the birth of somebody's Savior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Holideen! | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

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