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Throughout my time here, it has every so often occurred to me how absolutely, utterly spoiled we are. Our beautiful, roomy suites have regular bathroom-cleaning service. Our exorbitant (yes, exorbitant) investments in undergraduate social life include tens of thousands of dollars put into Yardfest and the multi-million dollar...

Author: By Tina Wang | Title: Finding Happiness at Harvard | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

Carter, also 83, praised Graham as a boundary-breaking preacher who had the greatest influence on his own spiritual life. Graham was the "first evangelist of any stature" who penetrated the Iron Curtain, starting with a crusade in Hungary in 1977 and eventually preaching four times in the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billy Graham: "A Spiritual Gift to All" | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

The Power of Billions Thanks to Jeffrey Sachs for daring to suggest that no one should hoard tens of billions of dollars in personal wealth [May 21]. Infatuation with the marvels of capitalism has made such talk almost heresy, but champions of free enterprise also need to heed common sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith in Romney? | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

Over 200 foreigners and possibly tens of thousands of Iraqis have been kidnapped since the fall of Saddam Hussein. But it is unusual for the Mahdi Army to kidnap foreigners - that tends to be the work of Sunni terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. And Shi'ite militias typically don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brazen Kidnapping in Baghdad | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

A society with as much experience of violence as Iraq - up to half a million soldiers and civilians were killed in the war with Iran in the 1980s, hundreds of thousands were massacred on Saddam Hussein's orders in the 1990s, and tens of thousands have died in the Shi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraq, Every Day Is Memorial Day | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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