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...everyday events, such as cooking spaghetti, to intellectual discussions with total strangers to heart-stopping, beyond-reality experiences. His images are at times so vivid and meticulously detailed that reading them is like watching a movie. When I started reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I made a pencil dot in the margin next to every memorable phrase or description. Eventually each page was marked with so many dots that I decided instead to reread the book - which I've done about seven times. His works are like symphonies that one enjoys listening to over and over again. Mel Leyde, SOPHIATOWN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Arctic Grab | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...brand. The employees of the Harvard Trademark Program, with an official Orwellian mandate to “protect and control” Harvard’s brand identity across the world, show up to work each day to ensure that, Heaven forbid, no street vendor in Dakar or Dot sells an unlicensed T-shirt with our sacrosanct insignia on it. The Harvard name does not merely signify unrivaled academic power—it signifies the registered trademark of unrivaled academic power, full rights reserved to the President and Fellows of Harvard College...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: A Nominal Problem | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

While the government has opened more than 30 shelters, many residents have chosen to remain near their homes or move into tents set up in parks and city squares. Blue-plastic tents dot the landscape from the beach town of Cerro Azul, made famous in the Beach Boys song "Surfin' Safari," to the city of Ica, 160 miles south of Lima, the capital. Major landmarks that identify this part of Peru have been lost. Centuries old churches collapsed, museums in Pisco and Ica are now little more than debris. Even natural rock formations, including one known as the Cathedral popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recovering from the Peru Earthquake | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

...though, has a big head start on the rest of the industry, thanks largely to Singh. The amiable tycoon, known by his initials K.P., was dressed during a recent interview in a white suit with a polka-dot pocket square. He recalled how prescient strategy--and a stroke of luck--turned DLF into a property powerhouse. Founded by Singh's father-in-law Chaudhury Raghuvendra Singh, DLF (originally Delhi Land & Finance) got started in 1946, a year before India won its freedom from Britain. Raghuvendra bet that hundreds of thousands of refugees who were expected to settle in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Dream | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...with chapters springing up at colleges across the U.S., including Kent State University, Boston College and UCLA. According to the group's wiki site, there are 148 university chapters, along with 50 high school branches and a number of regional movements. But the numbers are misleading. While many chapters dot the country, individual schools may have only a handful of active members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of SDS | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

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