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...Integration and Gender Equality. But in a country where 16% of the population are immigrants or the children of immigrants, Sabuni is the only member of an ethnic minority in the ruling coalition. And Sweden isn't the only country where, compared to their diverse populations, leaders look pale. "People often have very low expectations of immigrants," says Sabuni. "So, in order to achieve a good position, you have to be better than the others. It's a balance you have to be conscious of all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Faces of Europe | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...said. To make Harvard a great 21st-century university, faculty members said, she needs to help develop new connections between the hard sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.“If one gets out of step with the other, you’ll have Harvard becoming a pale shadow of MIT,” Mendelsohn said.Despite the magnitude of these challenges, professors said they trust Faust’s leadership skills and vision.“I think she’s ideally suited to create the dialogues and the give and take that will make Allston possible...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: For Historian, A New Focus | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

...superiority and inferiority play out on South Beach. Bears fans were the in-your-face, we're-a-real-city crowd whenever they spotted the softer, royal blue clusters of Colts backers. I even heard one Chicagoan hurl the "redneck" epithet. (Miamians, meanwhile, just got a good laugh watching pale, overweight Midwesterners trying to swagger on Ocean Drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of the Hoosiers | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...longtime Washington columnist had been told that his days were numbered after refusing dialysis treatments for his failing kidneys. But he didn't die, and returned home, continuing to write. Clearly he found it enormously amusing to catch the medical profession flat-footed. He was a little pale when I saw him, but his voice was strong and his mind was as sharp as the day we'd met back in the 1970s, when he had stopped by the Newsweek office where I then worked, to crack jokes with Mel Elfin, the Newsweek bureau chief, and flirt with Amanda Zimmerman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Art Buchwald | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...Each individual top 10 list is like its own steeplechase through the international canon. Look at Michael Chabon's. He heads it up with Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths. (Nice: an undersung masterpiece by a writer's writer.) He follows that up with by Pale Fire by Nabokov at #2. (Hm. Does he really think it's better than Lolita? Really?) Then with number 3 he goes straight off the reservation: Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini. (What? By who?) The whole exercise is an orgy of intellectual second-guessing, which as we all know is infinitely more fun than the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

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