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Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Sudan Exclusive photos by James Nachtwey and on-the-scene reporting by Simon Robinson document the tragedy in Darfur. What will it take for the world to forcefully intervene...
...Jacobs at a dinner party. He's funny, smart, polite and totally nonthreatening-looking. But ever since he read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica--which he did to write his hilarious book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster; 386 pages)--it is best to sit far, far away. His blurting of arcana has got so bad, his wife started fining him $1 for every irrelevant fact he crowbarred into conversation. "She was lenient," he told TIME. "I got away with $150. She could have gotten...
...himself, Bush states that his job is to be a "decision maker," as if to say that that's all the country needs in its President. If Bush wins, it will prove once again that politics is not moral. Pascal Gendreau Paris Brink of Destruction After reading Simon Robinson's World Watch item "Slow Going in Darfur" [Sept. 6], I was very discouraged that the international community continues to balk on responding to the crisis in Sudan. One would think that after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we would have learned something. The world must act before yet another group...
...week, it ruled that the E.U. had been wrong to block an aborted 2000 bid by WorldCom/MCI, for rival telecom firm Sprint. Some were not impressed during the hearings. "Coming in as an antitrust novice is a very tough exercise," says David Wood, a Brussels-based lawyer for Howrey Simon Arnold & White, "but it was a lame performance. She has to pick up a gear or two." - By Peter Gumbel In Need Of A Remedy Shares in Merck plunged almost 27% in a day's trading after the U.S. pharma firm withdrew its Vioxx arthritis drug due to fears that...