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Land of Peril - and Peace Since my wife and Ijust returned from a trip to Israel and the West Bank, I read "Israel's Secret War" with great interest [March 24]. We were both concerned and encouraged by what we saw of everyday life in that troubled part of the world. While we believe Israel's border checkpoints help provide security that its citizens deserve, we also saw checkpoints located well inside the West Bank that seem to have the purpose of hassling Palestinians. It was encouraging, though, to meet with Father Elias Chacour, a Catholic Archbishop and three-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Please Help Yourself | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...really like introducing new words into everyday language, like “inapropro” instead of inappropriate. What’s a word that you think people should start saying? R: “Politickin’.” FM: What does it mean? R: Politickin’ means to keep moving into politics, like learn and grow from it. Like if you sayin’ that you doin’ something and you being the best at it, and you stepping into that arena, you dealin’ with politics...Time is of essence. Time ain?...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Raekwon of The Wu-Tang Clan | 3/30/2008 | See Source »

...West) and then fell in three straight blowouts to No. 14 San Diego (19-9, 1-1 WCC). Over the four games, Harvard was outscored 46-8 and hit only .181.“It’s tough to go out and get beat like we are everyday,” captain Matt Vance said. “This has not been the best of weeks for us.”Against UC Riverside, the Crimson kept the score close for most of the contest. A four-run Highlander explosion in the sixth, however, put the game...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Overwhelmed Out West | 3/30/2008 | See Source »

Escapism begins as fantasy, a desire to forget the tedium and problems of the everyday. But sometimes it can take you to a place more menacing than the one you are trying to escape. It is escapism that leads Chris, a fortysomething traveling salesman trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage, to a street corner in north London. There, he propositions Roza, an illegal Yugoslav immigrant in her 20s, who has donned a short skirt and fur jacket merely to see what trouble she can stir. She invites him to her dingy basement apartment for coffee and starts telling him about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis de Bernières: Going Nowhere | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

That is because Allam is seen as almost belligerently anti-Islamic. After studying sociology at Rome's La Sapienza University, Allam began writing for the Italian daily La Repubblica, covering the first Gulf War and chronicling everyday life of the country's growing Muslim population. Initially, he wrote favorably about multiculturalism, and warned about the risks of racism against Muslims in this heavily Catholic nation. But after 9/11, now writing for another major newspaper, Corriere della Sera, he became an increasingly harsh critic of Islam, both inside and outside of Italy. He warned against the "Islamization" of Europe, and urged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Muslim Critic Turns Catholic | 3/24/2008 | See Source »

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