Word: strangerness
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ROMESH RATNESAR, who wrote this week's story on President Clinton's drive for national testing, joined our staff last month after a year at the New Republic, which he joined after graduating from Stanford University. Ratnesar isn't a complete stranger to TIME--he worked as an intern in our Business section in 1994. Since returning to TIME, Ratnesar has taken on some sticky issues, including the debate over "whole math." Says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan: "Romesh has the amazing ability to breathe life into the most densely technical of stories." He's also been assigned to explain...
...doubtful whether Doktor Kosmos has actually taken any Hippocratic Oath, but the lovably cankersored fellow (if he's the cover man) is no stranger to political commentary. With a European openness and security about the human body, the Doktor pokes fun in "Porno-Person" at the American tendency toward absolute public condemnation of purveyors of porn. As the song's narrator, the "porno-person" tells of "eating porno-food/driving porno car" and ultimately, in the final incongruous shocker, being "body without soul." Deep down, says the Doktor, these porno-people must be just like all of us. Less subtle...
...always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person--Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures--might go anywhere on earth and never be a stranger. Is that desirable? Or a horror? Such planetary recognition may be as dangerous, in a different way, as being an unknown alien once...
Fineberg, a long-time friend of Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, is no stranger to the University, having worked or studied at Harvard continuously since coming to the College...
Fineberg, a long-time friend of Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, is no stranger to the University, having worked or studied at Harvard continuously since coming to the College...