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...Estonia is faring as it seeks to construct an integrated society, and he snorts: "This is not nation building; it's more like putting out fires." Perhaps the next generation will work out such tricky issues. Galja Burnakova, 29, taps the side of her head with her index finger. "The biggest problem is here," she says. She's an interior decorator who was born in the Siberian town of Abakan but has lived in Tallinn for a decade and speaks near-flawless Estonian. Like many Russian-born residents, she says she'd much rather live in Estonia than back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting It Right | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...midnight.But that opening line sticks with you. Something’s different.For one thing, this is the most instrumentally fleshed-out and gorgeous album Oldham has created.Recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland all the sounds, from the desperate bombast of “The Seedling” to the barely-whispered finger-picking of “Wai” have an icy purity befitting the Emily Dickinson poem—“After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which the album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...left. While Lane took the measured approach, runner-up Kevin O. Orfield ’10, went the opposite way. “My strategy was to put them in whole,” he said. “At one point I had to reach in with my finger and pull [the doughnut] back out. I was in the lead until then.” At half-time, onetime basketball captain Damian T. Long ’00, a former missionary in Kazakhstan, said in a speech that his involvement in AIA led him to work in the central...

Author: By Khalid Abdalla, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Many Delicious Donuts Meet Demise | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...Foley Damage Assessment - So Far With its finger pointing and mishandling of the scandal, the Republican leadership has given already disaffected voters another reason to throw it out of power

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 9/11 Blame Game | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...with a contract dispute with the Eagles, in part fueled by his equally outrageous agent Drew Rosenhouse. Things soured in Philly so much that he was then traded to the Cowboys. Things started fine there, but Owens missed most of the preseason with a hamstring injury, then broke a finger in the one game he has played in. He was capitalizing fine on his celebrity, putting out a second book T.O. in July to update his first tome, Catch This! Going Deep with the NFL's Sharpest Weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Terrell Owens Attempt Suicide? | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

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