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...What follows are notes on a dozen familiar Christmas albums, most of them traditional, all chosen from the collection of a married couple very like the people who are about to force this music on you. These CDs play while the harder-working, more creative member of the pair decks the halls, the bedroom, the bathroom and the lobby. For Mary, it's a sacred mission that takes weeks. And while she dresses the tree, I listen again to the renditions of these songs - which from time to time have made me cringe - and marvel at their emotive and staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

...have a problem," says Paul Brachfeld, a former Secret Service agent who's the Archive's inspector general. Just how big the problem is, however, is something nobody really knows. The National Archives has about 10 billion documents that take up 28.4 million cubic feet in three dozen facilities around the country, plus another 543,000 assorted artifacts like paintings and mementos. "We don't know what's missing here because we don't know what we have," Brachfeld told TIME. "We obviously know we have the Declaration of Independence. But there is such a volume of documents here that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Trail of Pilfered History | 12/21/2006 | See Source »

Skyrocketing prices have left galleries and dealers scrambling to keep up with the demand. Sotheby's held its first sale of purely Chinese contemporary art in New York City only last March. A dozen or so foreign galleries from New York, London and Hong Kong have opened branches in Beijing and Shanghai in the past 19 months. Meanwhile, scores of local galleries have sprung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great China Sale | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...dozen other major donors who spoke to The Crimson confirmed Malkin’s remarks. They’ve been giving to Harvard because they agree with the Summers agenda. And regardless of who the next president is, they want that agenda to move forward...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alums Stick to Summers' Agenda | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...your own awkwardness. Try hanging out in an elevator in William James. Awkwardness, guaranteed.Good luck,SaraDear Sara,How do you know if you have a terribly life-threatening food allergy? I went to dim sum with my friends this one time and after I ate one of the two dozen assorted items that was on the table, my throat closed up and my ears started itching. The thing is, I’m not sure whether the food was too hot or whether I am allergic to shellfish. I’m too young to give up crustaceans. There?...

Author: By Sara J. Culver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR SARA | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

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