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...Soviet-era military debris--from MiG fighters to helmets--is being bulldozed into piles. The runway apron has been extended. Offices and a gym are under construction. The Post Exchange supply shop has begun to accept credit cards. There are even efforts to control the ever-present dust, a fine gray chalk that infiltrates everything--seams, food, mouths--and turns to slime at the slightest hint of rain. And while U.S. officers concede that the mission in Afghanistan has no end date, they do like to point to the fact that most of the new construction is in wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Themselves Feel Right at Home | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...Senate of those Eisenhower years, the arena of L.B.J.'s rapid rise to national power, from freshman Senator in 1949 to the youngest Senate Democratic leader ever, in four short years. Caro, whose great gifts are indefatigable legwork and a sense of historical drama and character, has a fine protagonist for his life's work. His Johnson, a man of Manichaean contraries, is now familiar--by turns Caligula and Lincoln, a narcissistic monster capable of immense personal cruelty and breathtaking political cynicism who now and then metamorphoses into an angel of compassion and statesmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Part Devil, Part Angel | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...estimated 80% of its masters during their 1975-79 pogrom against artists and intellectuals. Those who survived spent the 1980s and 1990s teaching the art to a younger generation and recording it for posterity on video and paper. You can observe dance classes at the Royal University of Fine Arts' North Campus Monday through Saturday from 7:30 to 10:30 in the morning. Or, to see the finished product for $5, get dates and showtimes from Sovanna Phum by e-mailing sovannaphum@netrec.net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Deal | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...most remarkable murder was perpetrated in the following manner, by a journeyman barber…who had been for a long time jealous of his wife. A young gentleman by chance coming into his master’s shop to be shaved…mentioned his having seen a fine girl home to Hamilton street, from whom he had certain favours the night before…the barber, concluding it to be his wife, in the height of his frenzy cut the gentleman’s throat from ear to ear and absconded...

Author: By Georgia E. Walle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reimagined ‘Sweeney’ Still Serves a Dark and Hungry God | 4/26/2002 | See Source »

...senior professor made his advisees tar his roof, or the one at which an underemployed faculty member had to moonlight as a janitor. The academic career path may be a labor of love, but as many of you are discovering in your romantic lives, there’s a fine line between love and utter humiliation...

Author: By Ben Berger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Doctor Is In | 4/25/2002 | See Source »

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