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Right now, though, most Lebanese have more pressing concerns. The army's journey south revealed a landscape of ruin. The tobacco-farm country around Tibnine, a hill town about 10 miles from the Israeli border, is like a slide show of destruction--scorched earth, leveled homes, torched gas stations--shot in a gray scale of cement dust and summer haze. While refugees have flooded back into other areas of Lebanon, only the brave or desperate have returned to these parts, which are still strewed with unexploded bombs, many of them from antipersonnel cluster munitions. "There are thousands of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTER FROM LEBANON: Reconstruction Wars | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...handsome--and he is very handsome. If Eisenheim and Sophie are to resume their tryst, they must elude both Leopold and his wily Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti). All are ready to play roles in Eisenheim's game: to be his accomplice, his stooge, his unmasker, his ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Both a Trick And a Treat | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...similar, say U.S. officials, to reparations made in post-communist Eastern Europe, which in some cases let original home or building owners regain title to their property as long as they agreed to let the current occupants stay under a rent control agreement; and given Cuba's economic ruin, those who do regain industrial or commercial properties may be required to pump new investment into them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba After Castro: Can Exiles Reclaim Their Stake? | 8/5/2006 | See Source »

Though the Woodberry Poetry Room is usually one of the quieter places in Lamont, the fifth-floor room has become a subject of controversy since renovations to the room set off a letter-writing campaign led by Graduate School of Design (GSD) faculty concerned that the renovations will ruin famed architect Alvar Aalto’s original design for the room...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Design Purists, Renovation Sparks Ire | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

RETRIEVING SOME BYTES Leaving your shoes at home is one thing, but forgetting a critical file can ruin a business trip. Sites such as GoToMyPC.com can save the day. GoToMyPC.com lets you operate a PC remotely from any Web browser. A new version lets you drag and drop files from home onto your laptop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Tech It With You | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

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