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...year—is entirely different from what people see as maturation elsewhere. I felt like a toddler in the presence of friends and relatives who were my age or just a few years older. Since graduating high school, Israeli youngsters have completed basic training, learned to fire a gun, and some even patrolled the streets of the West Bank. Others fought in a war and seen brothers-in-arms die. Meanwhile, I’ve toted books from my dorm to Lamont and back. Learned material, forgotten it, relearned it during reading period, and promptly forgotten it again...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman | Title: Not on Harvard Time | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...noble and often valuable tradition. Berry Gordy was notoriously tyrannical during the heyday of Motown Records, but compare the timeless, distinctive singles the Four Tops or Diana Ross did for the label with the banal, forgettable ones they did after they left. Spector, for his part, brandished a gun in the studio, intimidating everyone around him. But the hits he crafted for the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers are the music equivalent to the Sistine Chapel; the flimsy singles those acts (and many others) released after they broke with him are paint-by-numbers pop. As much as a Monkees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kelly Clarkson's Solo Misstep | 6/26/2007 | See Source »

...University. "He has a way of saying the things his audience has already been thinking to themselves and making them seriously consider acting on those thoughts." Both of Moore's first two major films - 1998's Roger & Me, about General Motors, and 2002's Bowling for Columbine. on the gun industry - brought unprecedented attention to their respective topics. And the director achieved a new level of success with his 2004 Bush-bashing hit Fahrenheit 9/11, which marked the tipping point of the popular resentment against the Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care's War Against Sicko | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...Previously fighters would move through the streets of Samarra in twos and threes. These days groups as large as a dozen or more gather to stage attacks, sometimes driving pickup gun-trucks. U.S. commanders fear that the arrival of the security forces from Baghdad could lead to even more violence in the city, as sectarianism takes root alongside increasing insurgent activity. The weeks ahead could be pivotal. On June 16, Sadr urged Shi'ites to join an annual Shi'ite pilgrimage to Samarra the first week of July. Since then rumors that Sadr himself may appear in Samarra have circulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Flashpoint in Iraq | 6/24/2007 | See Source »

...involved in the scuffle, a 27-year old East Boston resident, told police that he recognized the shooter as a man who had pulled a gun on him during a past incident. After the suspect allegedly brandished a black .9mm handgun, an attempt was made to wrestle the gun away from him by the man who approached...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Man Shot in Square Altercation | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

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