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...spiteful response to Mailer’s $2.5 million sale to the University of Texas in 2005. “Harvard wanted Norman to give them his papers, but instead he sold them to Texas,” the person told the Globe. “Buying this stuff now is so beneath Harvard.” But according to Leslie A. Morris, Harvard’s curator of modern books and manuscripts, Harvard did not purchase Mallory’s archive as a retaliatory act. “Anger is not a part of the purchasing of this archive...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Trouble for Mailer Archive | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...emissions as something perhaps easy to limit - just get those better lights and better cars. But for China, those vastly accelerating greenhouse gas emissions are just another measurement of how life is getting better for more and more Chinese in the cities: more cars, more electricity, more gadgets, more stuff, all of which carry a greenhouse gas cost. Asking China to limit greenhouse gas emissions even as its GDP continues to grow at nearly double-digit rates is like asking them to give up the good life they're just beginning to taste. It's not going to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Voice in a Billion: Changing the Climate in China | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

...producers and I would probably stake out one location. We would have to choose a spot where stuff is happening, where there are regulars and people have had time to build up relationships. That way the story can be about the drama between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ira Glass | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

Even when the Giants do get prosaic, they do it their own way. Their recent CD and DVD hits--2005's Here Come the ABCs and 2008's Here Come the 123s--deal with stuff that could not be more basic, but they do so in a decidedly unbasic way. There aren't many musicians who teach the concept of the number seven with a song about a gang of sevens invading a home and demanding cake. Think that's too edgy for your kids? Show it to them once--and then see if you can pull them away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Might Be Giants | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...innocently surfing the Web. Clicking on stuff. Sports scores, news stories. You know, normal things. Then it starts. A fusillade of electronic drums. A doinky synthesizer beat. A dude with a pompadour and a lot of sincerity. He's dancing--badly. He is 1980s pop star Rick Astley, and you have been RICKROLLED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never Gonna Say Goodbye | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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