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...become a brutal killer of jallabas, eventually succumbs in order to survive. Unlike many of the Lost Boys, however, Jal finds salvation through the grace of two women who steer him toward education. His subsequent life as a rapper and philanthropist trying to save other children from similar pain and anguish leaves hope for the possibility of redemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sudanese Lost Boy, Found | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...most famous, but it has transaction costs too high for impulse buys of less than a dollar. The denizens of Facebook are embracing systems like Spare Change, which allows them to charge their PayPal accounts or credit cards to get digital currency they can spend in small amounts. Similar services include Bee-Tokens and Tipjoy. Twitter users have Twitpay, which is a micropayment service for the micromessaging set. Gamers have their own digital currencies that can be used for impulse buys during online role-playing games. And real-world commuters are used to gizmos like E-ZPass, which deducts automatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save Your Newspaper | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...passengers off on one side of the checkpoint, and they board a bus owned by a partner company on the other. The luggage passes from the hands of Indian porters to their waiting Bangladeshi counterparts. The new train service linking Kolkata with Dhaka goes through Petrapole with a similar bit of theater. It spends five hours within one kilometer of the border, disgorging passengers and luggage and subjecting them to immigration and customs twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Great Divide | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...think certainly, because it’s Yale, there’s a little extra incentive.”“I’ve learned about that since I’ve been here,” he added.Tomorrow night, the Crimson faces a similar test against Brown. The Bears come into Cambridge without a league win, having lost to Yale twice, as well as Columbia and Cornell. Last year, Brown swept Harvard in the season series, winning 71-51 in Providence and 81-65 in Cambridge. The Bears feature three scorers averaging double digits, junior forward Matt...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Looks for Ivy Turnaround at Home | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...discrimination battles and struggles against segregated Boston public schools, the NAACP Boston chapter has become less vocal in recent years, according to the Boston Globe. Since the 1960s, the membership of the Boston chapter has declined from nearly 5,000 to 400. At Harvard, the NAACP has followed a similar trajectory. Though a group of students founded a chapter in 1998, it soon became defunct due to a “lack of leadership,” according to Nortey. This time around, students are working to establish a more enduring presence at Harvard by enlisting talent from across...

Author: By Courtney P Yadoo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard NAACP Revamped | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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