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On the subject of last minute holiday gifts, allow me to recommend noise-canceling headphones. They come exceptionally handy for travelers who want to listen to the in-flight entertainment -or more likely, an iPod -instead of the kid in the next row back who has yet to discover his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Headphones Made for a Noisy World | 12/20/2005 | See Source »

But the President wasn't the only one to have an accountability moment in 2005. The United Nations was finally compelled to concede that the oil-for-food program for Saddam's Iraq had turned into a massive scam. The French looked into the abyss of their tendency to segregate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year We Questioned Authority | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

We tend to think democracies come truly alive only when we elect or throw out a President or Congressman or Senator. But the truth is that sometimes the democratic spirit is more vibrant in the intervals. Democracy is rooted in the impertinent belief that our rulers are no better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year We Questioned Authority | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

He has directed four films in 32 years: Badlands in 1973, Days of Heaven in 1978, The Thin Red Line in 1998 and now this retelling of the romance of John Smith and Pocahontas - the crosscultural Adam and Eve, or Romeo and Juliet, of colonial Virginia. Like his superb earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Richard Corliss' Top Films of the Year | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

A new course aims to shed light on the formative years of famous Harvard alum and “West Side Story” composer Leonard Bernstein ’39. As part of the course, to be taught this spring jointly by Watts Professor of Music Kay K. Shelemay...

Author: By Jillian M. Bunting, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Musical Life Explored | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

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