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...belonging that permeates the values of all Pirahãs. The Pirahãs see immediately that outsiders lack this quality. They see Brazilians cheat and mistreat other Brazilians. They see American parents spank their children. Most puzzling to them, they have heard that Americans fight huge battles to kill large numbers of other people and that Americans and Brazilians even kill other Americans and Brazilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...Assassins” is the assassins, and this cast has some seriously talented standouts. The best, by a lot, is Alison H. Rich ’09. She played Samuel Byck, who, in Feburary of 1974, tried to hijack a plane, crash it into the White House, and kill Nixon. Instead, after killing a cop and a pilot, he killed himself.Byck had a habit of taping insane monololgues and mailing them off to people like Leonard Bernstein ’39, and this is how Rich spent her time onstage. Alone, dressed in a Santa suit, scarfing down cokes...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Assassins' Rocks the Relevance | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...bathroom. First they have to figure out why, and then they have to figure out how to escape. Meanwhile, a group of detectives are out looking for a sadistic freak they call Jigsaw because of the puzzle pieces he leaves at all of his crime scenes. Rather than kill anyone, Jigsaw devises elaborate ways for people to kill themselves, and in the process we learn to value life. So it’s a positive message: Love it or lose it. Jigsaw just wants everyone to be happy...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: A Slice of Justice | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Police went to arrest the offender and were pelted with eggs, chunks of concrete and balloons filled with paint and urine. The police responded by charging into the crowd, clubbing bystanders and yelling "Kill! Kill!" in what one report later termed a "police riot." Across the country, Americans watching on television gave their verdict: Serves the damn hippies right. Democrats, who had won seven of the previous nine presidential elections, went on to lose seven of the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Liberal Order | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...promising a cure. Without a transplant, her heart was sure to give out, but the operation could kill her, as could the complications that might follow. Antirejection drugs could reignite the leukemia; another transplant might be necessary in just a few years. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hannah's Choice: Saying No to a New Heart | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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