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Sadly, the man in the hoodie wasn’t on board with this plan. As I passed him, he grabbed the sleeve of my jacket, pulled out a knife, and said in a barely decipherable murmur, “Dame tu celular.” Like any non-freshman getting cold-called in section, my mind struggled to find the easiest way out of what was becoming my very first mugging. At this point, I would love to tell the story of how I used my enormous height advantage, the training acquired during my HUPD Rape Aggression Defense class...

Author: By Peter W. Tilton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Night in Bogotá... | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...first, using the table knife to slice the red delicious apple thinly was a task that sounded easy. But the knife wasn't sharp enough to make clean slices, so we ended up with slices that had fuzzy edges...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A "Cook" Book by Cabot | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...peacemaker. Nepal's four-time Prime Minister and champion of democracy died on March 20 at 86. His six decades in politics began amid striking laborers in jute mills, rose through civil war and regicide and ended with the future of his impoverished nation still poised on a knife edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girija Prasad Koirala | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...test flight over Maryland last week, the Pentagon's F-35 jet fighter landed vertically for the first time - like a helicopter - as it was vaunted to do. But at just about the same time, its price tag was climbing in the other direction. A Swiss Army knife of the skies, it's designed for vertical takeoff and landing to please the Marines and their smaller ships, while more conventional versions are slated to satisfy the demands of the Air Force and Navy. All of a sudden, however, the F-35 is in big trouble. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Costly F-35: The Saga of America's Next Fighter Jet | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...terms of search revenue. The most obvious potential foreign beneficiary is Bing, Microsoft's new search entry. And while Bing may not exactly have been handed the keys to a very rich kingdom, the executives there understand their good fortune - and have not been shy about subtly sticking the knife into Google. On March 17, Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer, told the China Daily - an English-language newspaper controlled (like all papers in China) by the Communist Party - that "we feel good enough now [about Microsoft's position in China]," adding, "But it's a 20-year [journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Profit When Google Exits from China? | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

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