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...Easing Tensions Re "How to avoid a new cold war" [June 18]: Whenever someone asks me to explain the murky goings-on in Eastern Europe, I say, Read Zbigniew Brzezinski. Zbig is nash, or "one of us," in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. He has the personal background and intelligence to see everything clearly, as well as the courage and ability to expound on it coherently. The West cannot afford to allow his advice to go unheeded. Ksenia Lena Maryniak, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, EDMONTON, CANADA

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tending His Flock | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

...right choice to leave.A Prairie Home CompanionDue Out: June 9Of the many independent films that are being showcased as alternatives to big summer movies, “A Prairie Home Companion” seems to be the one that Harvard is most anxious for. It chronicles the backstage goings-on of a fictitious weekly variety radio show. Nathan D. Johnson ’09 had this to say: “It is a sampling of talent from several generations. All these people who seemingly have no relation come together and I’m anticipating how this experiment will...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Long, Hot Summer Flicks | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

...high-profile Harvard blogs—Cambridge Common, Red Ivy, and the IOP Forum blog among them—to relocate to the site, and an in-house discussion about the then-exploding Larry Summers controversy, Summersville, became a focal point for campus-wide discussion of the administrative goings...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline | Title: CampusTrap? | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...Protocol. The U.S. is a nation of selfish materialists who refuse to be good stewards of the earth, and we deserve every abuse Mother Nature heaps upon us. It's just too bad the rest of the world has to suffer with us. Cheryl Clark Calera, Oklahoma, U.S. Ghostly Goings-on Having resolved not to comment on Jennie Erdal's Ghosting I nevertheless wish to draw your attention to two aspects of your review [Nov. 29]. The overheated love letter to my wife, as quoted in the book and repeated in your review, is a total fabrication. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...started last March, as a means of making some musical points, commenting on goings-on in the world of popular music and introducing artists that deserve wider recognition. As such, I’ve tried to avoid focusing on myself throughout this column, choosing to write instead about music news, although I suppose one can never really escape talking about one’s life or biases. “You can’t hide from yourself,” as Teddy Pendergrass once sang. So I suppose it’s alright to write just one column that?...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In The Mix: The Farewell Edition | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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