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...Congratulations on your stunning concert-stage engagement with [country-star] Shooter Jennings in June. Oh God. That was not stunning. I had my back turned toward him and the stage. I never knew that he was proposing. I heard him talking, but I thought he was doing his regular stage thing. And then he started getting mad at me from the stage because he had to get to the next song. When I got there, he was so nervous the ring was shaking in his hand...
...leadership. One could literally feel and see Chinese society come alive after its long Maoist trauma, only to have people quickly recoil when the conservatives in the leadership reasserted themselves. This seesaw pattern persisted throughout the decade, culminating in the dramatic Tiananmen demonstrations and their suppression in June...
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya believes he put his adversaries' backs to the wall this week. He may, however, have painted himself into a corner as well. By sneaking back into Honduras on Sept. 21 and taking refuge inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the exiled leader - deposed in a June 28 military coup - hoped to turn up pressure on the de facto government to negotiate a settlement that would put him back in office until his term ends in January. But in a telephone interview with TIME on Friday, Zelaya complained of noxious tear gas wafting into the embassy...
...When each of us has discretion to decide which of 30 different shades of Crimson to put on our business cards, we’ve carried things too far.” Harvard’s endowment investments fell 27.3 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30, bringing its total value down to $26 billion—an $11 billion drop. Faust reminded audience members that payout from the endowment will decline by 8 percent in dollar value for at least this year and the next. Harvard’s other two income streams—tuition and fundraising?...
...risk of bolstering Ahmadinejad through strong criticism may have diminished considerably since the debacle of the June 12 election, which sparked widespread and continuing challenges to the legitimacy of the regime. "Stoking nationalism by demonizing foreign pressure worked [for Ahmadinejad] before," says a French Foreign Ministry official who asks not to be named, "but this time Ahmadinejad is getting nothing - either on the nuclear issue or by blaming foreign powers for the antiregime protests." For that reason, the official shares Moisi's view that domestic unrest in Iran is more likely to weaken Tehran's defiance of international calls...