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...raise and what your priorities are,” Reardon said. “With the new president, that’s going to take a little time, but she has it right up at the top of her list of things that she’s working on fast...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust Names Acting VP For Fundraising | 7/6/2007 | See Source »

...Duff," in that he wants to make quality films that people actually see. LaBeouf doesn't party--his father's drug problems were "my personal DARE program," he says. That doesn't mean he thinks his life is healthy. "This-- the stress, anxiety, fear--probably kills me just as fast as doing drugs. I don't know how you can get a grip on this." LaBeouf says it's hard to find people who share his challenges. "It's not like you can go to a therapist, 'Hey, remember the time you showed up and Harrison was doing the whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kid Gets the Picture | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...western German BMW plants. Moreover, about half the 5,000 workers in Leipzig are not on BMW's staff; they either work for suppliers such as Faurecia or are so-called lease workers employed by specialized agencies and used by BMW when needed. That's a relatively new but fast-growing phenomenon: the number of lease workers nationally has more than tripled in the past decade, from 160,000 in 1996 to about 600,000 today, according to the Federal Labor Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BMW Drives Germany | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...home, I discovered that these postcards had already been sent home. Unlike the overpriced-faux-war-era postcards sold throughout the rest of the town in gift shops and boulangeries, some of these postcards actually dated back before WWI (with the postage stamp to prove it). Many bore the fast, scrawled messages written from soldiers to their mothers, brothers and lovers, briefly, and hopefully, describing life on the front. I stood mesmerized, reading postcard after postcard. I struggled through, first, the messy, smudged handwriting, second, my mediocre to decent French reading skills, and third, my disbelief that people could express...

Author: By Aliza H. Aufrichtig | Title: This is Not a Postcard | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...pork and observing halal meat-slaughtering practices. "I haven't tried burgers in the U.S., but this is the best one in Egypt," Randy Banna, a 25-year-old Cairene, agreed when I leaned over from my table to ask how he liked his cheeseburger. "It's not fast-food, where they cook it fast and you eat it fast. Here it's totally different." The culture clashes at Lucille's tend to be comical: Egyptian customers had a hard time understanding that a chicken-fried steak is a piece of beef, not poultry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Best Hamburger Is in Egypt | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

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