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...face of drought, food shortages and the lingering threat of political violence. Why, average Kenyans are asking, the Volkswagen Passat and not a Toyota, Honda or some other cheap and more widely available alternative? "To me, these guys are playing around with the minds of Kenyans," says Martin Kitunga, the 37-year-old senior mechanic at New World Auto in Nairobi. "Passat or Mercedes, it doesn't make that big a difference. If they really want to make a change, they should get a Toyota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenyan Outrage after Leaders Ditch Mercedes | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...room diagonally. The audience sits along either side in small bleacher clusters, the noticeably comfortable space between their seats an appreciated—and probably intentional—detail. After all, it could not have been lost on director Matthew C. Stone ’11 that British playwright Martin Crimp’s “Attempts on Her Life” is not a play that makes anyone feel like being close...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stone’s ‘Attempts’ An Awesome Success | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...address before taking questions, Obama mentioned the long struggle in the U.S. for equal rights among its citizens, invoking Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson to suggest parallels for increased individual rights in China. "We do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation, but we also don't believe that the principles that we stand for are unique to our nation," Obama said. "These freedoms of expression and worship - of access to information and political participation - we believe are universal rights." (Read "Obama in Southeast Asia: Mending Fences in a Key Region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: (Vetted) Question Time: Obama's Chinese Town Hall | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Imagine a play. Any play. Now remove the following elements: plot, character, setting, context. What remains is “Attempts on Her Life,” the play by Martin Crimp that opens tonight and runs until November 21 in the Loeb Experimental Theater...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Attempts’ Tries Innovative Theater | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...discarded the vocal theatrics prized by Randy Jackson for solid, conventional country music written by hardened Nashville pros like Josh Kear and Hillary Lindsey. “Play On,” by contrast, features the talents of a murderer’s row of pop songwriters: Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Chantal Kreviazuk and—now it all begins to fall into place—”American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi. DioGuardi is partially responsible for “Mama’s Song,” a toe-curling piece of moralizing that, along...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carrie Underwood | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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