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...final line of Kinsley's essay was telling. He implied that unless we spread the wealth around, we'll turn into a Colombia or Mexico, where people "live behind locked gates and hire guards to protect their family from kidnapping." Is Kinsley suggesting that to ensure their own safety the better-off should, via the government, pay protection money to the less well off? This would be playing with public money a similar game to the one rich people in banana republics play with their personal money. Mark A. Mendlovitz, Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Makeba--who often said she would perform until the last day of her life--spent her final moments onstage near Naples, Italy, singing those very words: "Pata Pata is the name of a dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miriam Makeba | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Shield's unflinchingness, and creator Shawn Ryan's brutal writing, has made it as disturbing as any HBO drama. The final episodes are even more so. Seeing Shane's toddler on the run with him and his wife is almost unbearable, and Goggins plays the pathetic, mentally overmatched Shane like a cornered rat. Chiklis, meanwhile, is masterly. He defined Mackey with his Mr. Clean physique, but his most valuable body parts are his eyes. To the end, as his options narrow and it becomes clear Mackey has destroyed everything he's tried to build, they dart about, looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fitting End for The Shield | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...very final minutes of the meeting yesterday, Harvard’s Chief Planner for Allston Kathy A. Spiegelman said that she thought “the letter spoke for itself...

Author: By Nan Ni and Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Allston Residents Call for More Creative Plans | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...meantime, the concerns that Lewis raised at the final Gen Ed vote in May 2007 may materialize...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Curricular Reforms Accrue, Students Take Fewer Electives | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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