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Maybe it was self-defense, maybe it was common values, maybe it was the fact that my clothes didn’t hang right and my hair didn’t rat, but by the beginning of eighth grade I hung out almost exclusively with kids who had the same hair as I did, the same fair skin (my sixth grade friends called me Rudolph because of my perpetually sunburned nose) and the same-sounding last names...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Confessions of a Self-Segregationist | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...consulate, which assured her that her husband was alive but had been detained. More than a month later the former political activist remains in custody, and according to someone close to the family, the accusations against him are "very similar" to the espionage tag the government last week hung on researcher Gao Zhan, who has been held since Feb. 11. The latest detentions fit a pattern. A Chinese court last November sentenced Stanford professor Hua Di to 10 years on charges linked to spying; in 1999, police detained Dickinson College librarian Song Yongyi for six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Professor Vanishes | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Harvard's 3-0 lead hung in the balance with the bases full of Quakers and only one man out, Walsh may well have bridled at the prospect of seeing his team blow a ninth-inning lead and begin the Ivy season with a 1-3 record...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Splits Four on Road To Begin Ivy League Season | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...powdered or crystalline form, new labs in Burma, northern Thailand and China commoditized the methamphetamine business by pressing little tablets of the substance that now retail for about 50 baht ($1.20) each. At first only bar girls like Jacky smoked it. Then some of the younger guys who hung out with the girls tried it. Soon a few of the housewives began smoking, and finally some of the dads would take a hit or two when they were out of corn whiskey. Now it has reached the point that on weekend nights, it's hard to find anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...vote," McCain said afterward. After casting the vote on the Frist-Breaux amendment, which would have doomed the heart of the bill if any of its appendages were struck down by the courts, as a simple up-or-down vote on soft money, McCain found he had hung onto all but six Democrats and picked up a handful of Republicans too - thanks in no small part to the ratcheting up in the "hard money" that, in a world without the soft kind, will the GOP's bread and butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Finance Watch: Next Stop Victory | 3/27/2001 | See Source »

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