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...Harvard had to jump through many hoops to get the invitation in his hands, not notifying government officials or the State Department until after communication with Walesa had occurred...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walesa Forced To Drop Harvard Invite | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...just parking and smoke began coming out of the van," Scipeck said. "Everybody started yelling at me to jump out because flames were shooting up from the bottom...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Van Burst Into Flames on JFK St. | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

Then again, to give Turkish audiences their credit, maybe Ceylan's previous films were just really, really slow. "Viewers have become used to the fast-paced style of ads, music videos and news shows that jump from scene to scene; this manifests itself in an impatience towards films which tease their stories out slowly," says Firat Yucel, editor of the film magazine Altyazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkish Director Fêted in Cannes, Ignored at Home | 5/27/2008 | See Source »

...last week's conference increases the number of participant congregations in the PEACE plan from 12 to 1,200 - a reasonable estimate, given that 1,700 pastors were in attendance and many actually head networks of congregations - then the number of PEACE missionaries would jump from roughly 2,000 a year to 200,000, vaulting the network to the forefront of the missionary field. Nor has Warren confined his invitation to those pastors in attendance. He is sending DVDs to the 30,000 churches that have participated in his rigorous "40 Days of Purpose" programs. And it was streamed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rick Warren Goes Global | 5/27/2008 | See Source »

...McCain got the jump on Barack Obama, who is slated to speak to the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami on Friday. But while Obama is expected to outline a more nuanced approach to Cuba, McCain's visit to Little Havana and his speech to more conservative Cuban-Americans were rote repeats of the routine every White House hopeful performs in Miami: cafe cubano at the Versailles restaurant followed by equally caffeinated bellowing about his anti-Castro bona fides and the Cuba-policy cowardice of his opponent, in this case Obama. President Franklin Roosevelt "didn't talk with Hitler," McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Misreading the Cuba Vote | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

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