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...This is America spitting in our face," said Imad al-Hashimi, a Baghdad paediatrician. "The sheer arrogance of it is unbelievable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock and Anger in Baghdad Greet the Abu Ghraib News | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...Then, there is the sheer number of titles, which seems to grow every week. I flip through 11 newspapers a day to keep up with events and search for story ideas. And those are just the main English-language dailies delivered to TIME's Delhi office, a relatively small selection whose number and circulations pale in comparison to their Hindi cousins. Indian publishers have over the past few years launched a plethora of new newspapers and magazines, covering everything from the latest cars to food to travel. Not surprising, then, that foreign media companies want a piece of the action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Pounds of Cosmo | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...problem for female executives: commonly known as men. They tend to show up in a lot of companies, exhibiting varying levels of bad behavior. Another new book, Alpha Male Syndrome by executive coaches Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson (Harvard Business School), says that uncontrolled alpha is out. Just as sheer numbers are allowing female executives to release their stifled femininity, women's increased presence in the workplace appears to be taming the corporate caveman in male colleagues. When they are brought in as consultants, say the authors, newly emboldened employees tell them that autocratic alpha managers are abusive and unwilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Girls Get Even | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...Chorus Line” works—and it does frequently work—it is not thanks to Noyer and Shields’ direction or production. It is thanks to individual cast members overcoming unremarkable choreography, boring staging, and a really awful pit orchestra by sheer force of personality. There are really great moments in what is generally a mess.“A Chorus Line,” with music by Marvin Hamlisch and a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, originally opened on Broadway in 1975. The show takes place over the course of a dance...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Actors Kick Over Shortcomings in ‘Chorus Line’ | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

According to Lowry, who studied Islamic art at the graduate school in the early eighties, the museum’s role is to filter through the sheer quantity of art produced and educate the public through its selections...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowry Talks Art In Emerson Hall | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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