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...When the stricken candidate first checked into the élite Vienna hospital in early September, doctors were stumped by his symptoms, which included acute back pain, swollen organs and numerous ulcers lining his digestive tract. But it was his worsening skin disorder, called chloracne, that pointed toward dioxin. Zimpfer noted that the fat-soluble substance would have been easy to administer in a cream-based soup. So who did the poisoning? "Of course, it was done by the authorities," Yushchenko told TIME last week, calling it "an act of political reprisal" by the government of departing President Leonid Kuchma, which...
There's a whisper of hope on the stricken Pacific island of Nauru these days, and it's coming from a 35-year-old Harvard graduate named David Adeang. Since becoming Finance Minister in the new government of President Ludwig Scotty, the popular Adeang has been fighting to revive what was once one of the world's wealthiest countries. As a young boy, Adeang used to watch the country's fleet of new planes roll up and down the island's runway, and its cargo ships race in and out of port. Now Nauru can only afford...
...walk in the party, and a stranger assaults me with a hearty handshake stricken with drunken joy. Here is The Drunken Host. He is drinking beer from his own special stein, a ritual he has performed for the past seven parties he has thrown. He introduces himself to me and asks me my name, a ritual we have performed for the past seven parties he has thrown. The Drunken Host is a conundrum: so friendly, so outgoing, so caring towards everyone. Â Yet, The Drunken Host will never remember you, what you major in or that you don?...
...presidential campaign has confirmed that the Vietnam War is still a touchy subject for many Americans. Davey (Abe Riesman ’08) is a bit more touched than most. Guilt-stricken over his country’s role in Vietnam, the blinded veteran decides to bring the truth of the war home to his complacent middle-class parents by teaching them what it’s like to be a Vietnamese peasant: he orders them to pick up grains of minute rice from the floor while his wife fires gunshots randomly into the air (shooting him in process...
...greatest moment of the exhibition is set at its extremity. Furthest from the entrance, as if deliberately hidden form the most ADD stricken of frivolous tourists, the democratized museum has brought us to a thoroughly different milieu. Here there is a comparison that sets before our very eyes the power and possibility of the media of print...