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...that book, about the education of a middle-class black man, about his ancestry, and I couldn't. And then my father died, and it was earthshaking for me. I remember saying to myself, I wonder what my father knew about these men? And I have to tell you, I felt access. I knew I could get there if I thought about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Toni Morrison | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...very bad is happening in Russia. They don't elect their governors anymore. There are no major television stations that are free from Kremlin influence. The Duma always seems to do what the President wants. Edward Lucas, the Central and East European correspondent for the Economist, is here to tell us that, in fact, things are much, much worse than that. In The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West, Lucas makes a powerful case that Russia hasn't simply lost its way or stumbled on the path to modernity; it has reignited the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chill Out: The New Cold War | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...celebrate positive aspects of the College. “Everyone in this room is an example of someone doing something very well at Harvard,” Sundquist said. The UC received 208 nominations for the awards this year. “If nothing else, the numbers should tell you that there is excellent teaching at Harvard,” said Student Affairs Committee chair Jon T. Staff V ’10. The students and the teachers they nominated were invited to the banquet in Dunster House, where psychology professor Stephen Pinker gave the keynote address. The winners...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Best Teachers Win Award | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...cable news host Chris Matthews opened his speech at the Institute of Politics Forum last night by making an admission. “I am here to make something of a confession,” Matthews said. “Television is limited in the way it can tell the political story of our time.” The host of MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” went on to “confess” the media’s propensity to focus only on the hot story of the day?...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Matthews Engages at IOP | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...vexing it is for the outside world to deal with Kim Jong Il and his regime. Less than two weeks after U.S. intelligence officials in Washington presented evidence that Pyongyang had helped Syria build a nuclear reactor - a site destroyed by the Israeli air force last September - sources tell TIME that a team of U.S. diplomats and officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development is now in Pyongyang, as part of the overall nuclear talks, trying to negotiate an expedited package of food aid. The U.S. has proposed giving the North 500,000 metric tons of grain, but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Great North Korean Famine | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

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