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...sell it at cost. "I'm beating everyone else by 40%," he recalls. "Because everybody else wants to buy a boat. I want to be famous." He gambled on a full-page ad in the New York Times, changed the name of the store to Wine Library and taught himself enough about wine to impress the resulting flood of customers. "I was 19, but I looked like I was 11. It became a circus act because people wanted to hear me talk about Burgundy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Totally Uncorked | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

Kouchner does have allies in the U.S. (He speaks fluent English and has taught at Harvard.) President Bush announced new sanctions in May against 31 Sudanese companies. But Khartoum's officials say the U.S. has overblown the crisis and punished the wrong people. "The feeling is very negative and angry toward the U.S. now," Finance Minister El Zubair Ahmed Al Hassan told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save Darfur? | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...says he is all for this, but he comes at the issue from left field or, more accurately, from somewhere in the 18th century. Thomas plays the crotchety schoolmarm, proclaiming that students should not have any free-speech rights in school. In the good old days, he writes, "teachers taught, and students listened. Teachers commanded, and students obeyed. Teachers did not rely solely on the power of ideas to persuade; they relied on discipline to maintain order." Spare the rod, he concludes, and spoil that little dickens Joseph Frederick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ruling "Bong Hits" Out of Bounds | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...just felt that five years was enough!" he said in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson. "You can take the Magic of Numbers from me in the fall," Gross added, suggesting that he plans to stay at Harvard and continue the popular Quantitative Reasoning course he has taught in the past...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gross To Step Down | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

...your view of Islam changed? -Budi Primawan, JAKARTANo, it hasn't changed at all. I grew up with Muslim people, so I was very acquainted with Islam. So it is not like the people who killed Danny taught me what Islam was about. They are hijackers of their own faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Mariane Pearl | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

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