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...them went on to become a director.” One of the grads attending was Michael L. Reiss ’81, a former Lampoon President and current Simpsons producer. “I loved the Lampoon,” says Reiss, explaining his 3000 mile trek. “I’ll put it this way: I hated Harvard, I hated it, I hate it to this day. If it hadn’t been for the Lampoon, I would not have had one good memory or experience out of Harvard.” Before Saturday night...

Author: By Emma R. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Dysfunctional Family | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...Basically, we're paying people to stop shooting at us," Vansandt mutters as his patrol finishes the trek through busy market stalls, past a troublemaking mosque and the local offices of Moqtada al Sadr's organization. Over several hours he's talked to dozens of men who all agreed that the local volunteer groups are working. And none has mentioned the killing of the three volunteers. But Vansandt says has no idea how many would participate in the fourth and final group he's trying to organize, one that would patrol a sensitive supply route. Nor does he know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Trying to Win New Iraqi Friends | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...failing farm who lost a leg in the Civil War. He sees a payday, and a chance for redemption in his son's eyes, by escorting the killer Ben Wade (Crowe) to justice. Screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas have opened up the action to include a trek in which Wade outsmarts or just kills most of his captors; and there are prime supporting roles for Fonda as a no-illusions bounty hunter and for Ben Foster, who's deliciously pernicious as a kill-crazy kid. But this splendidly satisfying film finds its essential heft and depth in the taut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Tough to Die | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...secret that Europeans know how to party. Countless American college students trek to the old continent every summer equipped with only a backpack as they hop from city to city to booze it up in multi-level nightclubs submerged in the drumming rhythms of techno music and pass out the next day in city caf?...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno | Title: Put Your Hands Up for Paris | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...month stay in Nepal, my father joined me for a weeklong trek in the kingdom of Upper Mustang that had culminated with a night in the walled city of Lo Monthang and a visit with a king...

Author: By Allegra E.C. Fisher | Title: The Road to Lo Monthang | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

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