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...aspect of that awful day in Hawaii (though the following year John Ford did direct a documentary, December 7th, that got limited release in theaters). Dec. 7, 1941, was a day that would live in infamy, but not very much on film. Instead, over the 3-1/2-year span of the rest of the war, the dream factory mobilized to manufacture hundreds of movies about tough soldiers fighting the good fight abroad, and strong women bearing up at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the War Movies? | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

According to the probable cause affidavit released by the Palm Beach Police Department, one of the girls Epstein solicited was a 16-year-old girl who performed sexual acts for him in his bedroom on several occasions over a span of two years...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

According to the probable cause affidavit released by the Palm Beach Police Department, one of the girls Epstein solicited for sexual acts was a 16-year-old girl who performed sexual acts for him in his bedroom on several occasions over a span of two years...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Billionaire Harvard Donor Arrested For Soliciting Prostitutes | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...right: memory is all we have left when fleeting youth escapes through the window. During my June in Europe, a continent often associated with the past as if it were an incurable malady, I was amazed by a widespread nostalgia emanating from popular culture. In a very short span of time, artistic expressions across languages and latitudes have returned to the revolutionary afternoons of May ’68—when a French student protest regarding university visitation rules erupted into a national firestorm. In England, newcomer singer Sandi Thom managed to bring “I Wish...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: The Same River Twice | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...scripted chaos. Pilots have paid particular attention to the country's bridges, knocking out over 80% of them, according to the Lebanese government - even some comically small ones. The bridge at Gharife Bayzoun in the Chouf Mountains, for example, couldn't have had more than a 15 ft. span over a dry creek. But when the Israelis took it out two days ago, they also cut a water main that fed some 45 villages in the Kharrob district. "They have no way of getting water, from here all the way to the eastern part of Sidon," said Ghaleb Abu Howdan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Road to Recovery for Lebanon | 7/19/2006 | See Source »

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