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...might pay, say, $10 for a 30-minute game, but the same space could hold two floors of spinning or yoga enthusiasts that would generate 30 times the revenue earned from a squash court over the same period. That's a problem facing club owners across the U.K., particularly inner city operators who rely on a lunchtime and after-work rush to meet their higher overheads. Faced with the sky-high rents of central London, some clubs have already shuttered; others have squeezed their number of available courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Wane, the Game of Squash Loses Its Wimbledon | 6/18/2007 | See Source »

...want you in your underwear. Right now." This is not a scene from a bordello in the sex trade, but an annual event in Japan's new beauty queen factory. For the last 10 years, Ines Ligron has been ordering young Japanese women to strip, walk tall, free their inner woman and wear lots and lots of makeup in an effort to seriously compete in the Miss Universe beauty pageant. And compete they have. The contest, long monopolized by Latin America's goddess industry, has now seen three of Ligron's frightened girls make it into the top five, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Beauty Queen Factory | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

...appears to be as tiny as Piaf was (the singer was only 4' 8") and she acts neurasthenic as all get out, but somehow her constantly victimized state works against our sympathetic response, particularly since the film's random structure often robs us of cause-effect connections. Sometime an inner voice threatens to burst forth: "C'mon Edie, pull up your socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Dreary Vie En Rose | 6/8/2007 | See Source »

Before we all salute Captain Obvious, it’s worth pausing and wondering how on earth the College plans to enforce such a policy. Considering how prominent final clubs are on campus, their leadership and inner goings-on are notoriously secret. In my research, I e-mailed four current or former “punchmasters” of different final clubs asking for comment and received no replies, indicating that the notorious “gag order” on final club officers talking to the press might actually be as much fact as fiction. The Committee report itself...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Too Much of a Bad Thing | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

Because of the nature of Harvard life, Social Studies’ negative message does not push freshmen toward finding their inner-academic interests, but rather it instantiates Social Studies’ prestigious image as the “Harvard of concentrations” and fascinates students for the wrong reasons...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine | Title: Social Studies and ‘The Harvard Problem’ | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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