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Free craftsmen, not convicts, sculpted the celebrated terracotta warriors and horses guarding Qin Shihuangdi's vast underground necropolis. But as Barbieri-Low debunks, they were not the master artists they are sometimes trumpeted to be. Many were just journeymen, working on component parts upon which they inscribed their names not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Mall | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

The Bush Administration has called President Pervez Musharraf America's most important ally in the war on terrorism for so long now that it may well become the Pakistani leader's political epitaph. He may need one soon. Three days after voters in parliamentary elections overwhelmingly rejected Musharraf's ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf's Loss: Trouble for U.S. | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Privileged Harvard students have long been able to login to JSTOR free of charge and usually in a semi-comatose state. Now, however, anyone with Internet access can pretend to be an Extension School student and read up on a professor’s lifelong passion for amoebas�...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Harvard Dream Come True: Free Scholarly Articles! | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

There was some of that, of course. Gates was a mite schoolmasterly, expressing concern that "many people on this Continent may not comprehend the magnitude of the direct threat to European security" from violent Islamic extremism. Some comments in Germany after his speech - Gates has been involved in a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call to Arms | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

Though most of our buildings lack the lavish uniformity of Yale or Princeton, the loose unity of the Harvard aesthetic is testament to our lack of pretension and honest relationship with its own history. In a way, the architecture of Harvard is an extension of its traditional attitude that its...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Looks Can Be Deceiving | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

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