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...four years back - one of my friends played it for me and I was stunned by her whole vision. It was completely new and bold, and normally when a person comes from India you expect a differentness, but she was bold, very sweet but in your face. I met her when she came to my studio to work on some stuff for another album and I said, "Let's do something together." Danny later suggested her name and I immediately said "That's a great idea." On 'O ... Saya,' I did the chant lyrics and she did the chasing [lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire Maestro | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Less than a thousand miles away, an interracial group of some 60 activists met in New York City to discuss how best to defend Lincoln's dying legacy. They called themselves the National Negro Committee, later changing their name to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Since then, the NAACP has worked tirelessly to transform American race relations. In 1915 it protested the blockbuster silent film Birth of a Nation, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and was enthusiastically screened at the White House by Woodrow Wilson. In 1930 its members blocked the Supreme Court nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: The NAACP | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

After leaving the Administration, Holder made millions representing corporations like Merck and MBNA. He met Obama six years ago at a Washington dinner party and later advised the then Illinois Senator's office. Obama tapped him, along with Caroline Kennedy, to head his vice-presidential search committee last summer, a process that apparently deepened the candidate's trust in Holder. When Obama called to offer the Attorney General job in late November, the issue of independence arose immediately. Obama made clear he was looking for someone to represent the rule of law, not his political interests, a point Holder stressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prosecutor | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...question is why. The authors hypothesize that the decline in breast cancer rates was largely due to the sudden stoppage of hormone therapy. But this correlation, first presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference in December, has been met with skepticism by other researchers in the community. They raised concerns about drawing a cause-and-effect relationship, since the sharpest decline in women's breast cancer rates occurred in the year after the WHI was halted and its data released, between 2002 and 2003 - too soon to see such a dramatic change in a complex disease like breast cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halting Hormone Therapy Reduces Breast Cancer Risk Quickly | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...bubbling up for a couple years,” committee member Patrica M. Nolan ’80 said. “We put the motion forward not to get an update on where we are but to move the district forward to address needs that are not currently met.” Nolan’s son, who is in middle school, currently takes geometry at the high school—an option she heard about only through hearsay. Nolan and other committee members said this should not be the case. “We need something institutionalized...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Schools to Debate Math Opportunities | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

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