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...season and weather, the view from the Lausanne harbor is stunning. In fall and winter the snowy peaks of the Swiss and French Alps provide a dramatic backdrop for Lake Geneva's choppy waters, where breezes shake moored boats like baby rattles. In spring and summer the mountains, including the Mont-Blanc glacier, are mirrored in the lake's clear blue-green waters, a picture of serenity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lausanne: From Glacier to Glacé | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

Before the current action, the most infamous sit-in was in 1969, and by the time it was over there was blood on the steps of University Hall; the diversity that Harvard now cherishes would make the many of the Houses’ namesakes shake in their graves, whether Increase Mather, Class of 1656, who left this conservative Puritan school for a more conservative Puritan community in New Haven, or A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who hoped to maintain the Brahmin finishing school by creating maximum quotas for undesirables like Jews. University President-to-be Lawrence H. Summers...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: History and Change at Harvard | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...sweeps the challenges, even his victims, the ones who leaned on him for too long, will have to hand it to him. And we'll watch the Colbster drive away in his Brand New Pontiac Aztec, with stray bills fluttering out the windows, and we'll wave, and shake our heads. It's not like Tina and Keith are all that likable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Survivor:' The Sugar is Dead. Long Live the Spice. | 4/26/2001 | See Source »

They grabbed for parachutes and began strapping them on as Osborn and his flight crew bellowed "Mayday!" into their mikes. It took about 5 min.--and up to 8,000 ft. of altitude--before Osborn could regain control. As the plane's unbalanced engines and sheared nose combined to shake the EP-3E violently, Osborn decided his best choice was to make for Lingshui, the closest airfield and one the F-8s had left only minutes before. Once the crew realized it was going to land in China, it began carrying out its "classified destruction plan," which parcels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Plane Finale: An 8,000-Ft. Plunge and a Tough Choice | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...Navy is over. He leaves with the taste of defeat in his mouth and a pall of sadness over his head. Like Job, he has lost almost everything. But he is still popular in the Navy--sailors he has never met on Hawaii come up to him to shake his hand and express their support for him. "When I die," he says, "I know I will be judged for all of my life, not just for one event." And he still has his dignity. He knows nobody can take that away from him, however he is judged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Passage | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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