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Although gay marriage has been legal in Massachusetts for over four years, members of the Harvard community still rejoiced at Friday’s announcement that California’s Supreme Court had made a similar decision and said they were cognizant of its profound implications. Harvard Law professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, who teaches constitutional law, said of the ruling, “It’s certainly going to shake things up, now that Massachusetts isn’t out on such a limb.” But Tribe, who is also a former clerk...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Receptive to CA Gay Marriage | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...book during wartime. Producer Scott Rudin told of of how he came to bring his friend Joan Didion's book The Year of Magical Thinking to Broadway. (The kids know that their "new" friend, Ms. Redgrave, was the star of his play.) Rudin tries to translate the profound emotions from that play into language the children can comprehend, comparing the main character's grief at the death of her husband to the pain children feel at the death of a pet. "Nothing is done at random," says Andes. "All our guest have significant ties to each other. We make connections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grade School Impresarios | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

...positions on both sides of this debate have hardened the past three decades, they have also grown more distant from the lives of everyday people," she told the audience [italics hers]. "The slogans and bumper stickers that paint this issue in black and white no longer touch the profound complexity most people feel on the issue of abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Feminist Divide Over Obama | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

...school and tend to have unhealthier kids themselves. "What happens in today's India may have a bearing on the next two generations," said Dr. M. K. Bhan, Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology in India's Ministry of Science and Technology. "Undernutrition in early life is the most profound issue that should concern us." Bhan urged all players to stop slinging mud and instead work out how India can start feeding all its citizens properly. That's pretty good advice. What's needed are solutions, not debate over who's to blame for short-term food price inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India to America: Eat Less, Fatties | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

Among the things you will not find in Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction are: humor, suspense, cleverness, profound observations about life, vocabulary above the 10th-grade level, footnotes and typographical experiments. It is debatable whether her keyboard even has an exclamation point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jhumpa Lahiri: The Quiet Laureate | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

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