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...solemn scene has been played out time and time again over the centuries?the great warships weighing anchor and heading out to sea on the morning tide. Nearby, as a reminder of the glorious past, was the Victory, the flagship of Lord Nelson when he sailed out through the same channel to win his great victory over the French and Spanish at Trafalgar in 1805. And, as always, the Britons gathered at Portsmouth Harbor last week to watch the naval departure were swept with deep feelings of national pride and a sense of foreboding about an uncertain future. The crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Off on the High Seas | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...extend the lead to 4-0 at 8:01 and record his fourth goal in two days.The Bobcats’ did get on the board soon after, as an interference call on Christian led to a 4-on-3 at 8:45. Quinnipiac’s Ben Nelson put his 11th goal of the season past Richter ten seconds later, but the game remained well in hand.Perhaps the only disappointment of the game came with six seconds remaining, with Harvard on its final power play. Michaud again received the puck on the right and had an excellent look to deliver...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Restrained in Penalty-Filled Battle | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...York's City's 70 Park Avenue Hotel, general manager Ericka Nelson agrees that everything starts with the pillow, a belief she came by the hard way. Her husband snores, and it took the right selection of pillows to keep her comfortable and him quiet throughout the night. "When we check into a hotel," she says, "the first thing that we do is divide up the pillows." On March 3, her hotel will open its own pillow library to celebrate National Sleep Awareness Week, but it has been in the sleep-amenities game for a while. The hotel already offers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pillow Talk | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...interesting final projects for computer science classes, and little else. Kindergarteners grow up from the color-by-numbers in Highlights magazine to blank pages for drawing their own pictures. Let’s make sure that, when it comes to academic color-by-numbers, we remain grown-ups.Garrett G. D. Nelson ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator in Cabot House...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: An Academic Color-by-Numbers | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...here from mutating into all-out ethnic war. Already in Kenya was Ban's predecessor, Kofi Annan, who is mediating negotiations between President Mwai Kibaki's government and the opposition Orange Democratic Movement of Raila Odinga, who claims that Kibaki's associates stole the vote through massive vote rigging. Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, who is a U.N. expert on humanitarian issues as well as a former First Lady of Mozambique, has flown in to help bring the parties together. Former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mpaka is here, Ghana's President John Kufuor came and went, and South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: In Diplomatic Intensive Care | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

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