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...herald of light, and the bearer of love, till the stock of the Puritans die.” So go the concluding strains of our valedictory anthem, “Fair Harvard,” which echoed earlier this academic year through Tercentary Theatre on the occasion of Drew Gilpin Faust’s inauguration as university president...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Presidents and Puritans | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...resigned as Cuba's President earlier this year because of health problems, leaving Raul to become the government's new No. 1 two months ago. Since then, Raul, 76, has ordered a series of small but significant economic reforms, from letting Cubans own cell phones to allowing farmers to till their own land - ideas that Fidel doesn't always find communist kosher. In a brief article published this week in the government mouthpiece Granma, Fidel takes issue with the idea, posited recently by a Cuban columnist in another official newspaper, that Raul's changes are progress compared to the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro Family Values: Fidel vs. Raul | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Chan as the Drunken Master Lu Yan to Jet Li's Silent Monk in the new Asian-American fantasy film The Forbidden Kingdom. But when these honored veterans of Hong Kong martial-arts movies get into fighting mode, it's an open question as to whether they'll survive till the end of the shoot. (Chan ends each of his films with gruesome outtakes of the injuries he suffered doing his stunts.) For all the safety precautions taken, the two stars still have to give every fiber of their disciplined, battered bodies to get through the kung-fu scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Kung-fu Stars Can't Be Stopped | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...have terminal cancer. I wanted to be an artist but ended up in IT. Do I keep working till I die? Do I quit and go to art school? Do I travel the world? What the hell am I supposed to do? -Terry Asdell, IndianapolisEverybody's situation is unique. From your description, I'd bet on art school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Randy Pausch | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick the scimitar and replace the case, all without touching the electronically sensitive floor. It's a swell exercise in suspense, and one of Dassin's finest illustrations of men at work, but it doesn't come till 85 mins. into the movie. Most of the rest is airy banter, suggesting that Dassin & Co.had a better time making Topkapi than most people do watching it. Sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Heist | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

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