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...about the Tudors or lamenting Britain's lost Empire "reek of pomposity." Steel's approach is to focus on things you don't find in the textbooks. Like the titillating contention that the most popular radical works of the Enlightenment, such as the influential Thérèse Philosophe, which follows a young woman's sexual and philosophical development, "were from the genre of philosophical pornography." Vive La Revolution's chatty informality doesn't detract from its rigor. Steel is not a historian, but he's done his homework. Even Revolution buffs may find surprising new facts - like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolutionary Humor | 7/20/2003 | See Source »

...against each other,” Illingworth says. “People should be relating their studies to what they do. It’s not what you do, it’s how you reflect on it academically. There’s not going to be credit per se for doing community service, but there are ways in which it all comes together and can be combined with academics...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under the Big Tent | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...vital golfing stats--scoring, putting, driving. In 1987 "my scoring average was 77," she notes. Last year it was an LPGA record 68.70. (Tiger Woods' average was 68.56.) "It's fun to see the progress," she says. Despite the presence of phenoms such as Karrie Webb and Se Ri Pak, Sorenstam has owned the past two seasons. In 2001 she won 11 tournaments and shot a record-low round of 59; last year she won 13 times, matching a mark set by Hall of Famer Mickey Wright in 1963. "I have days when everything falls into place, but then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Annika's Driving Ambition | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...late, though, for eight-year-old Chia-ru. Her father, Tang Se-hu, says she is still trying to comprehend the loss of her mother and misses the trips she used to make to the hospital where, he says, "her mom was always working." He adds, "she knows her mom helped care for people and saved lives." When she's older she will no doubt wish that someone had taken more care with her mother's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living on a Prayer | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...legitimate downloading services have fewer than 300,000 users in all. Still, if the retail-music business is going to survive, this may be what it has to look like, and for the business side, that's the real significance of the digital revolution. "It's not piracy per se but a transition to a digital world that will transform what a record company is and how it works," says EMI's Rose. "While downloading is an important issue, it's just symbolic of a much more fundamental shift in how music will be moved and acquired by consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All Free! | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

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