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Written by a Harvard and a Columbia grad, this 10-question quiz says, "Whether you went to one, are going to one, want to go to one, or could have gone to one (but chose not)"--FlyBy: people DO that???--"find out which one Ivy League school is right for you." FlyBy decided to try out the quiz on its favorite guinea pigs, the prefosh. See if they deserved their placement, etc. See how the little rascals did, after the jump.So, here's the deal: Three-fifths of the lab rats received the heartwarming confirmation that they do indeed belong...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: The Ivy League Sorting Hat | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...tortuous, so many lenders are turning to a more direct approach to get their money back - tapping into the Spaniards' fear of public humiliation. As a result, companies offering costumed collectors who recoup debts simply by showing up at a home or office and embarrassing the debtor in question have proliferated in Spain. But their days may be numbered, now that a committee of the Spanish parliament has approved a proposal to regulate the industry, a first step to bringing an end to the tradition of collection via humiliation. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Costumed Debt Collectors: Final Notice? | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Conference in Washington on April 7, arms-control experts were both exuberant over Obama's call to eradicate nuclear weapons and unsure how such an ambitious end-goal might be achieved. "It's been a long time since we felt this level of excitement," Kristensen says. "But now the question that has always seemed frustratingly hypothetical needs a clear answer: how can we actually make this happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reducing Nuclear Weapons: How Much Is Possible? | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...known modern Romantic poets, he is virtually literary nobility. While his father was on assignment as a diplomat, the young Yosano received some of his schooling in Cairo, where he remembers being asked: what is it like to be a citizen of a defeated country? The sting of that question became the seed of his political career. After graduating with a law degree, Yosano worked five years for the Japan Atomic Power Co. before taking a job as secretary to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in 1968. In 1976, Yosano won a Diet seat for the Liberal Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Economic Czar Faces Tough Choices | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...whose racism recalled the worst of European imperialism. Mandela, locked up for 27 years only to emerge with forgiveness for his oppressors, was a secular saint. There was no equivocation here. With the ANC and Mandela on one side and apartheid on the other, South Africa was literally a question of black and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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