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PORTLAND Kuhn Rikon's Butterfly whisk ($16) is favored by local chefs for its tough but sweet exterior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...stage. The Dalai Lama lightened the mood when he began by saying that “the first task is to remove the shoe,” and doing so with a chuckle. He sat cross-legged on the wooden throne, which was specially constructed for the event by local Tibetans. He spoke casually and conversationally to the audience, giving the speech an “intimate feeling,” in the words of Cristina Y. Remond, a first-year student at the Divinity School. Despite his light-hearted and easy-going demeanor, the Dalai Lama?...

Author: By Emma R. Carron and Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Dalai Lama Urges Unity | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...lucrative financial benefits associated with such jobs. Unfortunately, many public-sector jobs require students to sacrifice the opportunity to make a great deal of money. A student with a summer internship at Goldman Sachs, for example, will receive a much higher salary than a student working for his local congressman. Commendably, Harvard has taken great steps to address this inequality. The IOP’s Summer Stipend Program offers a stipend to students working in low- or non-paying summer jobs in government, public interest groups, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, campaigns, and nonprofit groups. In addition, CPIC pays...

Author: By Alix M. Olian | Title: E-Recruiting For More Than Just I-Banking | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...rely on "cell bosses," or favored inmates who are selected by prison staff to oversee small groups of prisoners. Several of the deaths have been attributed to beatings at the hands of prisoners acting on orders from other inmates. Because the problems have only been identified at the local level, Chinese media has been given relative freedom to cover abuses, says David Bandurski, a researcher with the China Media Project at Hong Kong University. "These cases of jail deaths are focusing right now on brutal acts carried out by gangs of prisoners," he says. "While the lines of responsibility leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China, Suspicious Jail Deaths on the Rise | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Pressure on the local police, especially in small towns, gets so high that arrests are often based on nothing but scarce evidence," says Beijing-based lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. "Even though they know it's illegal to force a confession by means of torture, the police still resort to it because it's hard for suspects to protect their own rights, and they don't have the right to keep silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China, Suspicious Jail Deaths on the Rise | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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