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The Communist Party's near obsession with secrecy means that finding out who is the driving force behind something as momentous as the Chongqing trials is close to impossible. But local media reports have singled out Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai for praise. Bo was appointed to administer the sprawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Underworld on Trial in Chongqing | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Following a side trip to Los Angeles indie-rock land in You Don't Love Me Yet, novelist Jonathan Lethem returns to the territory that has proved particularly fruitful for him this past decade - his home town of New York City. Yet, unlike Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Occasionally teased for their national obsession with hockey and sometimes mocked for the way they pronounce words like “out” and “about,” many of Harvard’s Canadians say their celebration of Thanksgiving reveals deeper cultural and political differences...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Canadian Club Celebrates Thanksgiving | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

Britain is crawling with so-called metal detectorists, who make a hobby - and often an obsession - out of unearthing treasure from the country's rich past. Occasionally they strike gold, like Terry Herbert, a 55-year-old Staffordshire man who, it was announced Sept. 24, discovered more than 11 lb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Following in the Footsteps of the Mud God | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Jenkins divides his time between serving as a TF, a tutor at Lowell House, the Director of Sophomore Advising, and a Ph.D. candidate. Studying primate biology as an undergraduate at Columbia University, Jenkins never expected to end up where he is today. But after contracting malaria during a research trip...

Author: By Nora A. Tufano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: R. J. Jenkins: He can teach you all about sex, primates, and Jake Gyllenhaal | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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