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...There is a general interest and at tention on the part of the president of the University and the dean of the Faculty to facilitate our research, teaching and studying of international relations questions,” said Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Director Jorge I. Dominguez. “The invitation to Annan obviously highlights this as well...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Annan Chosen To Speak In June | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

...First, we learn that the Tsar has been comatose for six months, leaving his wife, the power-hungry feminist Empress Uponyou, in charge of the country. (The Empress is an early version of a two-career woman, running Russia while caring for her daughter, the bratty, psychopathic Princess Ivanna Tention...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Cross-Dressing With Boris | 2/22/1995 | See Source »

Hocking might not have quarreled with that description. He proudly con curred in Poet John Masefield's con tention that love and beauty are uni versal gateways to truth and agreed with Existentialist Gabriel Marcel that all of experience is a divine summons, exalting passion. He never wavered from the tenet of his first book, The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), that "the world, like human self, has its unity in a living purpose. It is the truth of the existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers: The People's Philosopher | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

Onward with Vanderbilt Sir: I have read with great interest and appre ciation your article about Vanderbilt Univer sity [March 23]. Thank you for it most warmly. Our alumni and friends will be proud that the institution received this at tention from TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 6, 1962 | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...charge came first from L'Express, the pro-Mendes-France daily, in an attempt to discredit the Algerian policy of Premier Edgar Faure. Then the government itself picked up the charge-arid played it back with an anti-American overtone in an obvious effort to divert at tention from the flop of its Algerian policy. A communique from the Ministry of the Interior (headed by Faure himself) said that the gendarme could be court-martialed and the cameraman charged with bribery. The communique did not mention the cameraman's nationality, described him only as "a representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Atrocity | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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