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In February 2003, three American contractors crash-landed in the Colombian jungle and were captured by FARC, the country's long-lasting Marxist rebel group. For the next five years, the three were held hostage--many of their captors little more than brainwashed youths with guns--facing snakes, insects, disease...
But here's the thing: the more interested I get in Famous Writer's life, the less interested I am in my own. I'm in danger of paying more attention to her dog and her meals and her friends than I do to mine. My powers of concentration, never...
It’s only been a few centuries since art has become a thing apart from the rest of the social world. It is only in our modern bourgeois society that we’ve exiled artistic product to hermetic galleries and museums, when dance has been marginalized to...
This is discouraging for those of us interested in pursuing government jobs. We’re conscientious citizens, but we also want to be rewarded for a job well done. If Washington wants to encourage bright students to spend their careers in government, therefore, rather than marketing the public sector...
Subscriptions to pornography Web sites are slightly more common in traditionally conservative “red states” than in more democratic “blue states,” a Harvard Business School study reported this week. Benjamin G. Edelman ’02, a professor at the...