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...everything from the creation of the nuclear bomb to the Kennedy assassination. It's been aped in bad teen horror films and satirized - along with fellow conspiracy-group targets the Freemasons and the Illuminati - in The Simpsons. Even CNN has done a segment on the Prescott grave-robbery saga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skull & Bones Society | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...writer has swallowed all of Singapore, from its stately colonial bungalows to its once opium-infested slums, with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell, whose 1978 saga The Singapore Grip remains the great Singapore novel. From its opening passages Farrell signals the vastness of his literary ambition - and then brilliantly brings it off in the ensuing 500-odd pages. "When you staggered outside into the sweltering night," he writes of Singapore, "you would have been able to inhale that incomparable smell of incense, of warm skin, of meat cooking in coconut oil, of money and frangipani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sense of Place: Singapore | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

Yesterday night was just the latest episode in a seemingly endless saga of disappointment in Harvard’s meetings with...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: A Tale of Two Penalty Kills | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Just when it seemed that the Rod Blagojevich corruption scandal might actually recede from the spotlight, with the accused governor booted out of office and his seemingly unimpeachable Senate pick Roland Burris firmly ensconced in Washington, comes another baffling chapter in the saga. (See pictures of the remarkable world of Rod Blagojevich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Burris Be the Next to Fall in the Blago Scandal? | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...despite Chávez’s subsequent crackdown on the political opposition, his proposal was narrowly defeated, 51 to 49 percent. According to press reports, it was a cinematic ending to a dramatic saga in Venezuelan politics. Upon hearing the news, Chávez promised a sequel, grumbling that “For now, we couldn?...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Voting Democracy Away | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

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