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...owns a lot of property that needs some “block by block” rebuilding. Many of these buildings were active and productive before being purchased by Harvard, but in many cases Harvard’s real estate acquisitions have brought the opposite of what one might expect from having the world’s wealthiest university move in next door...

Author: By Harry Mattison | Title: A New Citizen of Allston | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...relationship - and especially an LDR - people can't expect their partners to be their caretakers. If you make a life-changing decision like moving to another city to be together, try to establish your own support network as soon as possible, whether that means making a few friends of your own, finding a job or joining a group that shares your interests. And remember that you each need to maintain your independence and understand that your lives don't revolve solely around each other. Love, companionship and sex should be a given, but you also need to make time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Work Long-Distance | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...reluctant to speak on the record butprivately agree with Wilson's claims. Senior officers acknowledge some shortcomings but remain confident the force will be able to handle security duties. "This is a very young police service," says acting U.N. East Timor Police Commissioner Juan Carlos Arevalo Linares. "We cannot expect to have a police service like Australia's when this country has only had a police service for a little more than six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing the Beat | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...expect the Chinese will do something," says Bonnie Glaser, an expert on China at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's embarrassing to the leadership, mostly for domestic reasons, that we are refusing to send these people back to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Guantnamo Problem | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

What exactly China will do in retaliation is unclear. Glaser and other China watchers do not expect a major backlash that would derail relations between Washington and Beijing. Glaser said Chinese leaders would likely react to the Uighurs' release in the U.S. as they did to the announcement in October by the Bush Administration of a $6.4 billion arms sale to the Taiwanese, a much more troublesome issue in the eyes of China's government. That deal prompted Beijing to curb, but not cut, military contacts with Washington and brush off some arms-proliferation talks. All in all, the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Guantnamo Problem | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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