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...play up Anene’s accomplishments than his own.CULTURE OF COLLABORATIONThe two running mates interacted long before they sought to tackle textbook costs through the UC. The Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrators participated in the First-Year Urban Program, lived in Matthews Hall, and rowed (and quit) freshman crew.Their current joint effort, their UC campaign, calls for a “culture of collaboration,” strengthening ties within the College, and forming new bonds between the Harvard community and the world beyond the gates.An “extra-curricular review” that would parallel Harvard?...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak and Shoshana S. Tell, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Anene Urges Diversity on Council | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

Your top concern is the safety of your membership fee. Most clubs agree to refund 80% when you quit. So insist on proof that the club has enough assets to fully refund all members. Ask how long it takes to get a refund. Most clubs won't pay until they get two or three new members--a problem if growth stalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Work: What's Wrong With This Club? | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...Soldier's Story, a black military officer is investigating the murder of an unpopular black soldier near an Army base in Louisiana. Sergeant Waters, the victim, brutally compels a young black private to give up his country ways and "quit thinking like a nigger." It was a rarely seen public representation of our private interactions: the impatience some blacks have with a victim mentality. Shocking. Powerful. A message to a white populace that we are not lemmings. And that even among ourselves, we're not a single tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Why I'm Good with the N Word | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...Unfortunately, instead of quenching the crisis, the tribunal will most likely produce the exact opposite effect. A couple of weeks ago, the Hezbollah and Amal members of the Lebanese cabinet quit their posts in an act—many suspect—of protest against the government’s approval of a UN draft setting up the aforementioned international tribunal...

Author: By Mohammed J. Herzallah | Title: Lebanon’s Civil War: The Sequel | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...news. After dropping over the past eight years, rates of smoking in the U.S. leveled off in 2005 at 1 in 5 adults, according to the CDC. The good news is that the FDA has approved a new drug--only the second to get its O.K.--to help smokers quit. This one, Chantix, was designed specifically to address nicotine cravings that make the habit so hard to break. Chantix mimics the active ingredient in nicotine and can fool the brain into thinking it has had its nicotine fix--without nicotine's addictive qualities or all the damage smoking does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Medicine From A to Z | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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