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...takes so little time for a quiet, carefully constructed life to be destroyed. The earthquake that struck Central Java in Indonesia on May 27 lasted just 57 seconds, yet it killed at least 6,200 people, left tens of thousands injured or homeless, and ravaged an area of some 500 sq km in and around the city of Yogyakarta. So much devastation, all in less than a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Helping Hands | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...side, Jean and Reiss have a comedic Penn and Teller-esque look. Bill L. Oakley ’88, who was on the Lampoon and later wrote and produced for “The Simpsons,” describes them as “a tall gooney Midwestern quiet type and a short swarthy funny bubbly...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Al Jean & Mike Reiss | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...Webb is standing at parade rest, feet apart at shoulder width, chin out, quiet blue eyes scanning his target of opportunity-the assembled Democrats of Montgomery County, Virginia-and waiting for local party chieftain Steve Cochran to ask him something. "Well, looking through this," Cochran says, riffling through a series of questions written on three-by-five cards, "there's one dominant theme. People want to know why you became a Democrat after all those years as a Republican, and why you endorsed George Allen for the U.S. Senate over Chuck Robb in 2000, and why you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Democrats Handle a Heretic? | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard students have no truly adequate or appropriate quiet space in which to work late at night when much of the undergraduate work at Harvard gets done,” complained a January 10, 2005 Crimson staff editorial that also admitted that “the idea of giving Harvard students a late-night library resource...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ’Round About Midnight | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...sampans. Terrified refugees were preparing once more to flee before the surging tide of communism. Nevertheless, the great majority of Chinese were becoming more reconciled to the prospects of communist rule. The cagey Reds had switched to a "soft" line ... In Chengchow, ... two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Moments in TIME: 1946-1956 | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

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