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...Rafiq Hariri? Barring a confession from the conspirators, the world may never know the full truth. But interviews with the participants in the drama reveal the immense pressure under which Hariri lived out his final months. His encounter with Assad last August set off a six-month showdown that pit Hariri against one of the most ruthless regimes in the Middle East, which had concluded it could no longer tolerate his defiance. In the end, that defiance may have cost Hariri his life. But it also gave his countrymen-and, perhaps, the region-a chance for a different future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut's Great Mystery | 6/1/2005 | See Source »

Besides serving as the main hub, Dorm Crew’s office in the basement of Weld Hall acts as a pit stop for freshmen bathroom supplies. Orfitelli estimates that on average the Dorm Crew office gives out 320 rolls of toilet paper every week. That’s 24,200 square feet of toilet paper every 7 days, enough to cover half a football field...

Author: By Heloisa L. Nogueira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Worker Readies for Spring Cleaning | 5/27/2005 | See Source »

...months. Liman had already passed on it once. It's the story of a seemingly conventional suburban couple facing two very big problems. One, their marriage is arid and joyless. And two, they both, each unbeknownst to the other, are topflight assassins at rival agencies. When professional circumstances pit the Smiths against each other, a hilarious fire fight between two trained killers ensues ("I missed you, honey" becomes a double entendre), which somehow, mysteriously, becomes a portrait of a marriage rediscovering its lost flame. It's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with concussion grenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: When Brad Met Angie | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

Xbox headquarters is a surprisingly unimpressive place, a generic office park in Redmond, Wash., across the road from a large gravel pit. Microsoft's inspiring name for this low-rent nerd farm is the Millennium campus, and it's where the company's money-losing projects live. Not for them the manicured lawns and sculpted berms and softball fields and fancy cafeterias of Microsoft's main campus. They get the gravel pit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft: Out of the X Box | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...indy music scene here at Harvard, and the Farmer Shop Quartet (which I’ve conveniently linked at tinyurl.com/2d8m to make up for the fact it has a horribly long address) allows you to make one that would fit in at Cornell. At www.isketch.com, you can pit your drawing talents against those of your roommates (or those of complete strangers, if your roommates are more responsible than you are) in a game that very closely resembles Pictionary...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: 'Research' on the Internet | 5/13/2005 | See Source »

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