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...HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE The nine tales assembled under this long title again demonstrate Canadian author Alice Munro's thorough mastery of the short story. All of them are touched, in one way or another, by the specter of death, a topic that Munro's skill makes surprisingly lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Books | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage The nine tales assembled under this long title again demonstrate Canadian author Alice Munro's thorough mastery of the short story. All of them are touched, in one way or another, by the specter of death, a topic that Munro's skill makes surprisingly lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...Laden. Officers at the CIA's "bin Laden station," which has been poring over the wealth of documents, artifacts and computer files found in al-Qaeda compounds in Afghanistan, then had to satisfy themselves that the recording had not been doctored. And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted on a thorough translation- vetted by outside experts- before the tape was released. Officials also checked the recording for coded signals to al-Qaeda cells. "It doesn't appear that it was designed for that purpose," says a senior intelligence official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy..." | 12/16/2001 | See Source »

Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, Harvard’s director of community relations for Boston, has helped organize the grants selection process for the University, which began with a request for proposals after Labor Day, and culminated in a thorough application review process completed last month...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Give Aid to Afterschool Programs | 12/13/2001 | See Source »

...City. There were special suits for handling hazardous chemicals and a magazine profiling hundreds of kidnappable multi-millionaires from around the globe. Armed, and with their faces covered against the wind, the Allied commandos stalked the camp, clearing the area of hidden traps before the spooks arrive for a thorough search. What caught the commandos' attention was several plastic 50 gallon vats of a mysterious chemical liquid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleeping in Mullah Omar's Bed | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

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