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...month ago, American diplomats, journalists and sundry high-ranking North Korean officials sat together in a concert hall in Pyongyang, listening to the New York Philharmonic orchestra perform for the first time in the communist capital. Television audiences around the globe caught snippets of the televised event and saw a friendlier side to the least understood nation in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Koreas: After the Music, Discord | 3/28/2008 | See Source »

...tremendous range and perfect pitch. By 9 she was out on tour with her mother and stepfather. It was the dying days of vaudeville, and she belted out her high Fs on sticky, splintered stages to halls full of cigarette smoke, but by 13 she'd been asked to perform for the Queen, and by 17 the family mortgage was in her name. By 19 she was on Broadway in The Boy Friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confessions of Mary Poppins | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...need to have a book he wrote so close by? Is Obama really briefing himself with his own words? He had better broaden his horizons and begin researching beyond his own 2002 hope catchphrase, or he will choke on his ego before the Democratic Party has a chance to perform the Heimlich maneuver. Danielle Charette, DURHAM, CONN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Campaign Comeback | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

Allam is the latest example of Benedict's attempts to re-engage contemporary European secular culture as well. The official Church line is that the decision for the Pope to perform the baptism himself was not extraordinary. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi emphasized that Allam was just one of seven adults baptized Saturday during an Easter vigil mass, saying that the Pope performed the rite "without making any 'difference of people,' that is, considering all equally important before the love of God and welcoming all in the community of the Church." Nonetheless, Allam's public conversion is another reminder that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Muslim Critic Turns Catholic | 3/24/2008 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons disagreed, saying that disadvantaged students sometimes perform better on SAT II tests...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fitzsimmons Defends SAT II | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

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