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...Keene learned Japanese at the U.S. Navy Japanese Language School during World War II, and worked throughout the war translating captured documents. He also interrogated - and sometimes comforted - captured soldiers in Okinawa and Hawaii. Keene told one desolate prisoner who asked why he shouldn't kill himself that he should stay alive to fight for the new Japan. That he has an empathetic nature should come as no surprise: What is translation, after all, but relating how others see the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language of Love | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...almost unwilling determination to press on. It is this fact that makes it impossible to not like Day, not to sympathize with him. Even when he chooses to be a tail gunner because “you’re the one they’re most likely to kill,” Day still reaches for every book, still infuses every song with all his soul. Half-despite himself, his will to live is indefatigable.And the book’s most beautiful passages, its most cutting scenes, are when Kennedy plumbs this reluctant desire for life, finding it inextricably...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'DAY' SHINES LIGHT ON MAN'S SARKEST DEPTHS | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...Most people—including myself—believe that to eliminate the tumor, one has to kill both the stem-like and the more differentiated cancer cells, but we may need to use approaches that are specific for each,” Polyak said...

Author: By Kevin C. Leu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Scientists Test Stem Cells in Fight Against Melanoma | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...words of Gangstalicious from “The Boondocks,” Ice Cube “was so gangsta. I used to have dreams that Ice Cube would come to my house and kill my whole family.” It’s been disheartening to see the Ice Cube persona (if not the man himself) emasculated, sanitized, and dismantled over the last ten years in third-rate family films. After a decent comeback album in 2006, “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It”—the lead single...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Ice Cube | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...many conservatives, and Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, who is known as an ideological purist on Capitol Hill. "He doesn't have a secret plan to enact blanket amnesty as President," Coburn told the crowd, about McCain's plans on immigration. "And if he did he knows I'd kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Conservative Courtship | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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