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...think most people will get so tired of going through hundreds of pages from people out walking their dogs at night who see a white light in the sky," he says. And even if a reader should stumble across a sign of something that seems alien, the reams of paperwork aren't likely to explain it. "There is no smoking gun in these files," Pope says. "There's no spaceship in an airplane hangar." Still, he's not ready to dismiss the prospect that there's something deep in the data to suggest that there is indeed something out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Releases its X-Files | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

Earlier this month, as many Harvard students asked for extensions on midterm assignments, countless Americans dealt with a deadline of their own: April 15th. All over the country, taxpayers hustled through piles of incomprehensible paperwork, a chore not unlike the problem sets in quantum mechanics many of Cambridge’s student inhabitants have to tackle...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Simple is Beautiful | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...such, the election seems to present an ideal opportunity to start from scratch, beginning at the most mundane level. It begins with a recognition of the hidden minimalist beauty of straightforward IRS paperwork. One could argue about the “optimal” level and structure of taxation, but the general direction of our tax legislation must be the one toward less complexity. Fred Thompson’s proposal may need to be fine-tuned, but it would be a crushing disappointment if the country missed an opportunity to reform a clumsy tax system that only hinders competition with...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Simple is Beautiful | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...among the student populations. Following repeated incidents of dangerous binge drinking and routine hospitalization for alcohol-related concerns, college administrators rightly increase their concern for the well-being of their charges. But as recent events at Harvard have proven, deans prefer to impose liability-proof safeguards—tedious paperwork for registering parties, imperious oversight by entryway proctors, and severely curtailed access to alcohol in general—rather than opt for the more arduous but perhaps more far-seeing approach of encouraging a culture of personal responsibility and maturity. Inevitably, the lawyerly advocates of the “nanny?...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Presidents and Puritans | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...reliable source tells me you bribed a customs official to enter the country," a Nicaraguan customs agent-turned-journalist demanded of the British man who slipped her $10 the day before to speed up his fake immigration paperwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disaster in a Tourist Mecca. Actors Wanted | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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