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...government's commitment to racial quotas has unraveled rapidly since the World Cup final on October 20. Back home, the Springboks' winning coach, Jake White, bluntly told reporters that South Africa's racial politics were driving him out of the country. White is largely credited for creating a near-flawless World Cup team, and is in talks to become England's national rugby coach. In addition to White, two star Springbok players have already signed large contracts with French teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Backtracks on Quotas | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...again to consider stepped-up contact with Raul Castro - widely regarded as more pragmatically flexible than Fidel - as a more effective means of jump-starting a democratic transition. "President Bush is right when he says this is a unique moment in Cuba, but he's missing that moment," says Jake Colvin, director of USA Engage in Washington, which favors moves like lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba - something even most Cuban-Americans in Miami now favor, and which many Cuba watchers suggest the Castros actually fear. Bush insisted that engaging Cuba now would just give "oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up the Hard Line on Cuba | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Spring Greeney ’09, Henry M. Cowles ’08, a Crimson arts editor, and Jake C. Levine ’07, a Crimson photo editor, are former co-chairs of the Harvard Environmental Action Committee...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, Spring Greeney, and Jake C. Levine | Title: Undergraduates, Overlooked | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...were also listening to the music, on our headphones and in our cars. We started at three in the morning, and we didn’t stop until we turned out the lights. And that’s pretty Great.—Reviewer Jake G. Cohen can be reached at jgcohen@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD OF THE WEEK: Radiohead, "In Rainbows" | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...Rendition” develops three interconnected storylines. Isabella (Reese Witherspoon) desperately searches for her husband Anwar (Omar Metwally), a Egyptian-born chemical engineer who has been kidnapped by the CIA under questionable pretenses; inexperienced CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles to torture a man he believes is innocent; and, in a seemingly unrelated thread, the daughter of an Egyptian, CIA-sanctioned torturer rebels against her traditionalist father by falling in love with a radical student whose personal life remains a mystery...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rendition | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

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