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On a lovely morning in Central Park, two young women sit on a bench. One thinks she hears a scream and notices that the strollers on the promenade have frozen in their tracks. The other woman, seemingly distracted, removes a large hairpin and stabs it through her cheek.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shyamalan's Lost Sense | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

I flew back to Boston the next day, disappointed but distracted by the final exams and papers on my mind. In the middle of writing a paper, I took a break and went down to the Lowell House dining hall. One of the House masters, Reverend Dr. Dorothy Austin, nervously...

Author: By Rahul Prabhakar and Ari S. Ruben | Title: Lessons from the Trail | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

Truthfully, it shouldn’t have taken something as convenient as a well-publicized and well-marketed program like TFA, which works at something as obviously problematic as educational inequity, to catch my youth and waken me from sleeping. Throughout college, despite the clear proscriptions of my faith and...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly | Title: Taking the Leap | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

Pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign is mounting. On May 28, Ehud Barak, the current Defense Minister and a former Prime Minister, called on Olmert to step aside, saying he is too distracted by an ongoing corruption probe to effectively lead. On May 27, a U.S. businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

Rescorla had once led soldiers through the night in the Vietcong-controlled Central Highlands of Vietnam. He knew the brain responded poorly to fear - but he also knew it could be distracted. Back then, he had calmed his men by singing Cornish songs from his youth. Now, in the crowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Survival Guide to Catastrophe | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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