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...would be smart for [the University] to negotiate now and fix this before {AFL-CIO President} John Sweeney gets arrested in front of Mass. Hall," Offner yelled to the crowd...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff and Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Protesters, Police Strengthen Positions | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...times he is as bewildered by his own country. Of militant militia members, he comments, “Failures [of government] need correction. Crimes cry out for punishment. Some ask: How do we fix it? Others: Who do we kill?” And yet there is never a situation so obscured that Johnson doesn’t see the other side. He sees the frustrations of militia members as a combination of a bizarre anti-Semitic cosmogony and valid suspicions of encroachment by the federal government on tangible and theoretical conceptions of freedom. He listens to the songs written...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Seek’ and Ye Shall Find Yourself | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...blocks away from Rainbow Bar, a local pharmacy peddles eight brands of whitening cream, including Luk Kreung Snow White Skin. In Tokyo, where the Eurasian trend first kicked off more than three decades ago, loosening medical regulations have meant a proliferation of quick-fix surgery, like caucasian-style double eyelids and more pronounced noses. On Channel V and mtv, a whole host of veejays look ethnically mixed only because they've gone under the knife. "There's a real pressure here to look mixed," says one Asian veejay in Singapore. "Even though we're Asians broadcasting in Asia, we somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eurasian Invasion | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...specialized, so they might not help Frack's hardened arteries or the insulin-producing cells in his pancreas (though other types of stem cells might). But in principle, he could mine his love handles for cells to repair his damaged liver, to replenish blood cells lost to disease, to fix a damaged heart or to repair missing or deteriorating cartilage. And because the cells would be drawn from his own body, Frack wouldn't have to worry about having his immune system reject them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Live Longest? | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...environment. The White House complains that some positive decisions have been underplayed by the press. But such spin doesn't approach Rove's usual gold standard. Why didn't the master strategist see this coming? He knew Republicans scored badly on education, and he hatched an effective plan to fix the problem. But when it came to being green, he was as blind as Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Busiest Man in the White House | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

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