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...begin to see our neighbors in the Square as the nameless homeless, instead of people much like ourselves. We cease at last to be sympathetic to their misfortunes or interested in their lives, instead coming to ignore them outright. Finally, we participate in and endorse a culture of stark and impenetrable walls. But there is very little in reality dividing Macleod and me. I cannot forget that, for the most part, it is only happenstance that entitles me and my classmates to the warm quiet of the library and damns him to the cold. This revelation followed fast...

Author: By Rachel M Singh | Title: Outside the Comfortable | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...heat on North Korea even more. His somewhat unlikely ally in pressuring Pyongyang is Lee Myung Bak, 66, the newly inaugurated President of South Korea. Lee, a conservative who says he wants closer ties with Washington, has vowed to take a tougher line toward his uncooperative Northern neighbor, in stark contrast to the "Sunshine Policy" Seoul has pursued for the past 10 years. This program of engagement allowed North Korea, without giving up much of anything, to gorge on a smorgasbord of South Korean aid amounting to more than $800 million in the past five years alone. The gravy train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Mr. Sunshine | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...eyed daughter of a prim pair of young professionals. That case seemed to play out as a distinctly middle-class drama: the McCanns were dining at a sun-splashed Portuguese resort when their daughter went missing. The Shannon Matthews case, on the other hand, has provided a stark reminder to the residents of the Dewsbury Moor council estate - and to Britain as a whole - that the lives of the poor are too often of interest only when they become too desperate to ignore, or too bizarre. with reporting by D.J. Siegel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girl's Disappearance a Fraud? | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...team to revive the brand in a new format. Since warming up in markets across the country, Madewell has opened its New York City flagship. The two-story store (below) successfully conveys the brand's spirit with original 1882 moldings, floors and fireplaces, and a brilliant contrast of stark white walls to vibrant merchandise everywhere one looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made in Manhattan | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...what he talks about in Positive Psych and the spirit of Shabbat are similar,” Rohr said. “Taking time out to be with friends and family, to reflect.” —Staff writer Rachel A. Stark can be reached at rstark@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blowout Crowd at Shabbat Dinner | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

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