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...Loggins’ “Footloose” while pulling a sick dance move/split combo. This has probably happened 8 times in my life, but I never had the courage to ask him if he wanted to do that thing where you wiggle your arms like an electric shock is passing through you and then you pass the electricity to the next...

Author: By Theodore B. Bressman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Footloose’ for a Cause | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...Japan, Roh's diatribe initially inspired shock, followed by rationalizations and finally indifference. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper called the speech a "dangerous development," but Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi downplayed it, saying his government would respond "in a cool-headed manner." Unimpressed, last Friday Korea's Foreign Ministry rebuffed Koizumi's suggestion that he and Roh hold a summit meeting to help heal the rift. Japanese papers like the Nishi Nihon Shimbun have attributed Roh's pugnacity to his domestic political concerns, suggesting that Japan need not take his speech too seriously: "An uncompromising stance against Japan plays well into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocky Relations | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...France, then it shouldn't bother them to leave a country they don't love," Sarkozy said. It's hardly a new refrain; the far-right National Front has used France: love it or leave it as a slogan for years. Perhaps for that reason, Sarkozy's pronouncement sent shock waves across the French political firmament. Sarkozy - the likely candidate of France's ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in the May 2007 presidential elections - was accused of fishing for votes in the anti-immigrant swamp, where Jean-Marie Le Pen and Philippe de Villiers, the leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love It or Leave It: Xenophobia Goes Mainstream | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...France, then it shouldn't bother them to leave a country they don't love," Sarkozy said. It's hardly a new refrain; the far-right National Front has used France: love it or leave it as a slogan for years. Perhaps for that reason, Sarkozy's pronouncement sent shock waves across the French political firmament. Sarkozy - the likely candidate of France's ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (ump) in the May 2007 presidential elections - was accused of fishing for votes in the anti-immigrant swamp, where Jean-Marie Le Pen and Philippe de Villiers, the leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit Strategies | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...critical approach serves as an important check on the quality of tenure appointments.“We have been even more careful in what we brought up,” Alesina says. “For other departments it might have been a little bit of a shock, they might have been used to a less proactive president.”Economics is Summers’ intellectual forte, and it is no surprise that he would grill the department on candidates’ research and potential contributions, say Alesina and Martin. But Summers also has to make decisions about cases...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Final Hurdle | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

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