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...whole generation of Americans, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the most accessible of figures. Millions felt intimately familiar with all the details of his life: his wife Eleanor, his Scottish Terrier Fala, his cigarette holder, his stamp collection. Yet F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. described him as simultaneously evasive and frank, frivolous as well as grave, "a man of bewildering complexity." The playwright Robert Sherwood, who served for years as the President's speechwriter, admitted that he had never been able to penetrate Roosevelt's "heavily forested interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interiors: The Roosevelts | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...American destiny all along. But unfortunately for those who would cling to this fraudulent King and the sanitized version of American history he represents, no matter how many Apple Computer commercials or elementary school Black History Month celebrations he shows his face at, the false King cannot ever stamp out the real King’s greatest legacy...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry, | Title: A Tale of Two Kings | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...women out for shopping or dinner have dyed-brown hair piled high with looping curls and ultra-feminine (and frequently pink) outfits replete with bows and frills. These are the "Nagoya Gals," a look that swept Japan last year when Tokyo fashion bible JJ gave it its stamp of approval. "Nagoya Gal Kits" flew off Tokyo department-store shelves, and toymaker Takara released a "Nagoya Gal" edition of Rika-chan, the Japanese equivalent of Barbie. Says Maiko Takagi, editor of Nagoya fashion magazine Trend: "People in Tokyo are paying attention to what we do like never before. After being ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Loves Nagoya | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

...Shan is outspoken about business conditions in China. In editorials in the Asian Wall Street Journal, he wrote that China needs more market reform to stamp out corruption, which he called "a serious threat to China's body politic," and warned that willy-nilly lending by Chinese banks will wallop the economy. "I see a market filled with pitfalls," he says. "China is deceptive. Growth doesn't necessarily translate into profit." During a February luncheon in Hong Kong, Shan shocked the crowd by challenging Nobel-prizewinning economist Amartya Sen for praising Mao's "barefoot doctor" program as a sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Barefoot" Banker Strikes Gold | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

Students have taken advantage of the newly simplified process toward recognition—after filling out an online form, meeting with an administrator to make sure the group meets the College’s basic requirements, all that is left is the final stamp of approval from the CCL, which meets once each month...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Club Approval Process May See Overhaul | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

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