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...often seems that loud is every child's middle name, but this lovely book should tame the rowdiest tyke by dwelling on sound, not noise. The blue house is a summer place that, after the season ends and the suitcases bang closed and the car doors slam shut, falls silent. Or does it? Banks' poetic text and Hallensleben's richly impastoed paintings guide us through the deserted rooms, evoking the dripping of a kitchen faucet, the buckling and crackling of frost on the windows, the ruffling of a cat shaking snowflakes from its fur, even the silence of a bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Children's Books of 2005 | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...Brigid L. Kerrigan ’91 hung the Confederate banner from her Peabody Terrace window. Two years later, she unfurled the flag again from her Kirkland House dorm, prompting a 70-person silent protest, according to The Crimson...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confederates on The Charles? In 1991, Harvard Faced Flag Flap | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...Hardy flipped to the last card in the pile, dated June 22, 1967, and continued. ?John has not been successful in completing his requirements to graduate. He will need to repeat 12th grade.? Hardy laid his old report cards on the table and addressed his now silent audience. ?At that point in my life, I never would have imagined that I would one day be reading this shameful report to all you here in Bali. Remember, we are all on a journey, and we never know where we may end up. What's important is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hardy: Bali Guy | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...most disgustingly absurd where HIV/AIDS and poverty intersect. The film’s characters can’t afford to pay rent, but they have no trouble getting expensive medications. For a film that claims to be about poverty and disease, “Rent” is shockingly silent on the ways poverty interacts with illness to make HIV a death sentence. In a world where millions still die from these combinations, this silence is unconscionable.This is not to say that “Rent” doesn’t achieve anything worthwhile on a political level...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: Politics for Rent | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...DIED. ALFRED ANDERSON, 109, Scotland's oldest man and last surviving British veteran of the 1914 Christmas Truce of World War I; in Newtyle, Scotland. As an 18-year-old soldier serving in the Black Watch regiment, he heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front on Christmas Day as British and German soldiers emerged from the trenches to greet each other in no-man's-land; they sang carols, swapped cigarettes and played soccer until fighting resumed that afternoon. In 1998, he was awarded France's Legion of Honor for his war service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

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