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Beah escaped this fate and thrived, he says, through pure luck. But he's one of those very quick studies who could have succeeded anywhere. He learned to kill fast, and he learned how to blend in at an American high school fast. Even in Paris, he looks as relaxed as any tourist. Of course, what he did and endured has long contrails. His migraines have gone, but the faces of people on the street will sometimes remind him of people he killed and of the very bad days of his youth. It's not what he did, though, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Culture Finds Lost Boys | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

...report recommends 18 concrete and sensible strategies for the improvement of teaching at Harvard, but if the report is to make more than a mere dent, its proposals must be brought to fruition. We hope that the Faculty, the new president, and the new dean of the Faculty will fast-track the implementation of pedagogical reforms proposed by the Task Force rather than leaving the report to collect dust next to similar reports that have preceded it.The report correctly identifies Harvard’s pedagogical gap and faults institutional priorities rather than individual practices. A university that verbally expounds...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A New Direction for Teaching | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

...Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York City. On Jan. 31, its shares had a price-earnings ratio of around 70 (a stock's P/E ratio shows the amount investors are paying for each dollar of per-share earnings). That's a richer multiple than investors are shelling out for fast-growing Google...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: China Braces For A Bubble | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...Improve our defense and we will get some open court opportunities,” Sullivan said. “We’ve seen that we’re a good team on the fast break—[Lin] has some speed and [Housman] is a very good open court player...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson To Move to Small, Fast Lineup | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

Housman, ranking in the top ten in points (12.9), assists (3.11), and steals (1.5) in the Ivy League will be a focus of this new fast break game in addition to his already established influence in the Crimson’s front-court...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson To Move to Small, Fast Lineup | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

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