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...They did. I haven't seen it for a while, so I don't know what the situation is at the moment. I did go up a couple of times before we moved [to Wales] and planted and gardened it. I turned her grave into a sort of flower bed. I went up there and it was hard to find it. A stranger looked at me and said, "oh, if you're looking for the Plath grave, it's over there." I hadn't said anything. I realize that it's a tourist attraction. I really find that very, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Frieda Hughes | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

...film's depictions of Persians, adamant that the movie was secretly funded by the U.S. government to prepare Americans for going to war against Iran. "Otherwise why now, if not to turn their people against us?" demanded an elderly lady buying tuberoses. "Yes, truly it is a grave offense," I said, shaking my own bunch of irises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 300 Sparks an Outcry in Iran | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

...devoid of all other sounds besides waves crashing and a tragic-sounding mandolin. “Redhead Girl” finally brings the album’s latent intensity to the forefront. The peaceful wind chimes that open the song lead into a heartbeat’s thump and grave chords strikingly similar to those in Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away.” The vocals move through the song like mist over a still lake, and Air’s dreamy trance hits a fever pitch. While “Pocket Symphony?...

Author: By Andrew Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Air | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Then came the war, which changed all of us but affected Cheney more than most. He was still wired in on everything, but that didn't mean he was in touch. He was convinced he was right about grave matters - that Saddam Hussein was a threat that had to be removed, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and was intent on using them, that critics of Administration policy were at best misguided and at worst traitorous. "It's always been a joke in his office that his staff is extraneous," said a staff member. "The only thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheney's Fall From Grace | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...often still paid by seniority, not by performance, and switching companies in mid-career can mean career suicide. Part-timers have the potential to pick their jobs, be rewarded for skills rather than seniority and be spared the 90-hour workweeks that drive many salarymen to an early grave. In Haken, Haruko tells her full-time colleagues that "overtime is not in my vocabulary," leaves work precisely at 6 p.m. and in between contracts, flies to Spain to work on her flamenco dancing (don't ask). When the company offers her a permanent job, she turns them down, preferring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Indignity of the Temp | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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