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...reunited Korea" would be stiff competition for a China that aspires to impose its will on East Asia, hence Beijing keeps its unruly neighbor alive and refuses to support tough U.N. sanctions against North Korea. Let's hope for the sake of the Korean people that China does not succeed in promoting its self-interests and that there may be a reunited Korea before our lives are over. Juwon Yang Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/11/2006 | See Source »

...quite coheres, due in large part to its unjustified cinematic bells and whistles. The truly endearing quirks are the more organic ones, like Dustin Hoffman’s constant barefootedness, or Thompson’s enchantingly disgusting way of putting out her cigarettes.Despite all these flaws, the movie does succeed as a black comedy. Eiffel describes it at one point as a story about the “looming certainty of death,” and indeed much of the humor is aimed at our discomfort with the idea of dying. Unfortunately, Ferrell is terrible as a romantic lead...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Stranger Than Fiction | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...manageable,” says Sack; her website claims that her main objective is to make the application process as minimally painful as possible. And Sack claims an impressive success rate: 95 percent of her clients get into one of their top three schools.Some Harvard students have attempted to succeed in the industry by creating companies that tackle the admissions game from a unique perspective. Teaching fellow Benjamin B. Bolger—currently TFing Government 1206: “Contemporary Political Islam” and working on his doctorate at the Harvard Design School—sees his company, Bolger...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Price of Packaging | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...battle to succeed him will be bruising, as members attempt to allocate blame for the Foley mess. Among those seeking to replace him at the top of the House leadership, which will now be the minority leader, are House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), now second in the House leadership, and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), chairman of the House conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee. Other possible candidates are Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), now chief deputy whip and one of the most popular and hard-working members of the leadership, and Rep. Joe Barton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hastert Will Step Down | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...about the war. We will obviously scan the exit polling to see if there are other factors in the race that we don't immediately see, as sometimes there turn out to be, and that will be an interesting element of the whole evening. If the Republicans succeed in holding this back - either in one house or, less probably, in both, which is still possible - then it'll be a very interesting night of soul-searching about how this could possibly have happened in a year so clearly unfavorable to the Republicans and with the war front and center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Fox News' Brit Hume | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

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