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But not every historian agrees. "There's simply no need for it," says Wolfgang Benz, head of the Berlin-based Center for Research on Antisemitism. Not only would such a learned tome "fail to add to our understanding of such things as the Holocaust or the elation with which many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Mein Kampf Be Un-Banned? | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

A toxic chemical was inadvertently released into the air during a Harvard construction project earlier this month, prompting Allston residents at a special meeting called by the University Monday night to express concern over future health risks as construction continues. On August 1, employees from Turner Construction—the...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toxic Release Prompts Allston Residents To Question Risks of Harvard Construction | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Maddox Jolie-Pitt and landmines. That was pretty much the extent of my knowledge about this exotic Southeast Asian country before I arrived. Now, after living here, working in the microfinance industry, and traveling extensively throughout the provinces, I feel a deep connection with...

Author: By Charles A. Lacalle | Title: Finance in the Third World | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

In 2001, while living at a camp in Kenya, he learned about a U.N. program to resettle 3500 Lost Boys into the United States. He penned an essay about his experience - "I was writing in Swahili, and English, and Swahili, and English," he recalls - and was picked. On July 31st...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flag Man Stands Down | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

Smith soon became part of the family - there are only 2700 Tiwi, a name that means "we the only people." And they learned to live in front of her camera as if it wasn't there. For Tiwi (1990), she captured every aspect of daily life and ceremony, but it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Living | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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