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...Miraculously (as it seemed at first), people would help. Far from averting their gaze or palming me off, interviewees would e-mail me extra information, share anecdotes, call me back to check details. They were often funny and invariably nice. No longer an abstract phobia, strangers were an extracurricular...

Author: By John R. Macartney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Accept the Candy | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...sentiment of some of his fellow jurors during the deliberations. "Where's Rove? Where's Cheney? It seems like he was the fall guy." Overall, said Collins, the jury was sympathetic to Libby. He was sitting in front of them in court every day; his voice was "polite and nice" in the grand jury tapes. But early on in their deliberations, recalled Collins, one juror told the others a maxim her mother always repeated: "When you let yourself be led by emotion, it usually leads you the wrong way." This, said Collins, characterized the approach the jury took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Convinced the Libby Jury | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard diving alum,” Giesbrecht said. “I came to watch my teammates and to finish off my career. We had an incredible Ivy League meet two weeks ago, and after being injured all season, it is nice to be able to compete. It’s great to end the season with [Papadaki] winning the one-meter and going on to Nationals...

Author: By Kelley D. Mckinney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Papadakis Nabs Spot at Nationals | 3/4/2007 | See Source »

There's no nice way to say it: movies�love murderers. Producers may claim the killer's story is a cautionary tale, but they revel--along with the villain and the audience--in the sick grandeur of a hit man, a supervillain, a serial killer. Movies used to show what the audience wanted to be. Then Norman Bates came along, and Freddy and Jason, and Hannibal Lecter, to prove that we also wanted to see what we feared. The psycho creeps toward his victim; we can't watch, and we can't turn away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Anatomy of a Manhunt | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...government had increased the fares after the drivers' attempts at better manners, says auto driver Sunil Kumar, 32, "then we would have continued. But why should we try to be nice when we are paid nothing?" Kumar, the father of a five-year-old boy, says he makes a few thousand rupees a month, the equivalent of about $100. He says the drivers can't go on strike or their children will go hungry. In any case, says Kumar, it's only a small minority of rickshaw drivers, especially ones who service the train and bus stations, "who give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dishonesty Is the Best Rickshaw Policy | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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