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We run along the pavements, keeping low, chased by the sound of gunfire and more explosions. The nearest escape route is 33rd Street, narrow like so many in the downtown area, and it is a seething bottleneck of people - sitting ducks - so I run on and dart up 34th Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Robes And Tears: A Rangoon Diary | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

In her absence--the two-time Prime Minister is scheduled to return to Pakistan on Oct. 18 after eight years in exile--the tomb's marble floors have been chipped and its peeling walls spray-painted with anti-Benazir graffiti. Bhutto fled the country in 1999 when facing charges of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Pakistan | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

If one movie scene defined the high-flying action genre of the 1960s, it was the finale of The Great Escape, in which the prisoner of war played by Steve McQueen defies the Nazis and jumps a barbed-wire fence on his motorcycle. The real hog jumper? Bud Ekins, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 22, 2007 | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

Despite its apparent advantages over hereditary/religious orders of earlier ages, this notion of “superior intelligences” cannot escape its artificiality. The inequality of intelligences can never be an objectively verifiable fact of human life; the metrics that establish intelligence are necessarily steeped in arbitrariness. Especially when...

Author: By Adaner Usmani | Title: Against Leadership | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

Corey M. Rennell ’07-’08 has been filmed stick fighting in South Africa, canoe racing in Vanuatu, and tribal wrestling in Brazil. Now, one hurdle remains: accepting the fact that his experiences will be on display for TV viewers as the reality show ?...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Hopes To Be 'Last One Standing' | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

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