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...twentieth century would be to set it in a moment in history where the social world is about to crumble. The aristocratic social world is on its last legs, and the servants are smarter in a certain way than the wealthy, foolish lovers. While it is certainly an arduous task to put on an opera in a dining hall, Spellberg and Sullivan believe that the finished product and the experience are definitely worth the time and effort. Sullivan: Having done opera for two years at Harvard, it’s amazing to see how many dedicated people there are involved...

Author: By Elizabeth L Mead, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spotlight: Matthew M. Spellberg '09 & John M. Sullivan '09 | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...center for the civil rights movement, dating back to the Civil War. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white - a silent reproach to Clinton by his best-loved constituency, those unutterably decent, hardworking, middle-class, churchified African Americans. They had been shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd, at Hillary Clinton's closing rally in Columbia, was equally pale and must have been deeply depressing to the ex-President. I remembered a huge interracial crowd in the Mississippi Delta, late in Clinton's presidency. I was standing next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton, Get Out of the Way | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...radicals, and they're turncoats; criticize the government, and they're unpatriotic. Last year, a group of prominent Muslims sent a soberly worded open letter to then Prime Minister Tony Blair, arguing that British foreign policy fueled extremism. Government ministers denounced the letter, one calling it "dangerous and foolish." The reaction showed that "well-adjusted, contented and successful British Muslims are considered the biggest traitors of all by the powerful in the British state," wrote columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in the Independent newspaper. "A new abominable social contract is being offered to us. If you Muslims want to be accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Through | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...center for the civil rights movement, dating back to the Civil War. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white-a silent reproach to Clinton by his best-loved constituency, those unutterably decent, hardworking, middle-class, churchified African Americans. They had been shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd, at Hillary Clinton's closing rally in Columbia, was equally pale and must have been deeply depressing to the ex-President. I remembered a huge inter-racial crowd in the Mississippi Delta, late in Clinton's presidency. I was standing next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spoiler | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

Much has already been written about Fischer's disappearance and apparent mental instability. Some are quick to place the blame on chess itself for his decline, which would be a foolish blunder. Pushing too hard in any endeavor brings great risk. I prefer to remember his global achievements instead of his inner tragedies. It is with justice that Fischer spent his final days in Iceland, the place of his greatest triumph. There he was always loved and seen in the best possible way: as a chess player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chessman | 1/26/2008 | See Source »

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