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...celebrate this ritualistic jamboree. What the eff? Message to Dunster HoCo: just because a holiday occurs in May, it is not necessarily an appropriate formal theme. As delightful as wearing maternity dresses to a Mother’s Day-inspired formal would be, something just doesn’t sit right with Beltane...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, D. PATRICK Knoth, and Amy Sun | Title: BALLin! FlyBy’s Formal Reviews Pt. III | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...American and PLA surveillance vessels near China's southern Hainan island may be an augur of what lies ahead. A new submarine base there gives Beijing a vital edge in the South China Sea, whose waters are contested by five other governments. The disputed Spratly and Paracel archipelagoes, which sit above reserves of natural gas, have been an ongoing bone of contention between China, Taiwan and Vietnam. Further afield, China and India, Asia's other rising giant, are locked in a protracted contest of influence over the Indian Ocean, with China setting up a "string of pearls" - or listening posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Navy Grows, and the World Watches Warily | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard grants. Students may still opt out of attending university-sponsored travels to Mexico if they are personally concerned about the outbreak. “We understand that one’s health is a very personal thing. If a student decides not to go to Mexico, we will sit down with him or her and figure things out on a case by case basis,” said Christopher “Kit” H. Barron, a spokesman for the David Rockefeller Center. Barron said he could not say for certain whether the student would be allowed...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College To Keep Trips to Mexico | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...Ashton Kutcher (10:41 p.m.) I'm trying to figure out why anyone would let me sit this close to the president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweets From a Washington Dinner (a.k.a. #nerdprom) | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...Blue and Red teams sit along opposite sides of a rectangular adjoining table, with commanders in the middle beneath a large graphic display with power point slides and digital maps showing each scenario. After meeting to devise their plans, Red team members take hostile actions against the Blue team which must then fashion a response. "Our goal is to stress the blue team," says retired Maj. Gen. Chuck Thomas, a red team senior mentor. In some instances, diplomatic and humanitarian actions short of military force can be chosen as the best option. In others, force may be required. The idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Invades! (And Other Pentagon War Games) | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

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