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...These tasks are not easy, but at least they're feasible now that the nationalists are no longer breathing down Tadic's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serbian Voters Spurn Nationalists | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

...come from. I tell him. He asks me whether in my country people can "say government bad." I say, yes, we can. He looks at me and shakes his head. Then the teacher makes another gesture. He points at the waterlogged earth and slashes a finger across his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Burma, Fear Trumps Grief | 5/11/2008 | See Source »

...person, Lahiri is almost as reserved as she is on the page. She is tall and slender and stands very straight, with a silk scarf tied around her neck, much too elegant for the chain coffee shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she is being interviewed. Lahiri speaks quietly and deliberately, vouchsafing only the occasional smile. She orders nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jhumpa Lahiri: The Quiet Laureate | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...unidentified male approached a female student from behind and wrapped a thin wire around her neck early Tuesday morning before she kicked the unknown assailant and fled the area unharmed, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). A crime alert e-mail sent by HUPD Tuesday afternoon stated that the undergraduate was assaulted in Harvard Yard, near Lamont and Houghton Libraries by the stairs going down towards Pusey Library. The attacker remains at large. HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano declined to comment, stating that the incident is under investigation. Within an hour of the reported attack, women who learned...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Attacked Outside Lamont | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...what we enjoy, freedom of expression? The Indian shows go first, then they ban music, then women on TV. Once they get a taste of power, once they are successful with this, what stops them from going all the way? I can feel the Taliban breathing down my neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Unplugs Bollywood's Siren Song | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

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