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...manipulate matter with only his mind, “The Cabinet of Wonders,” written by Marie K. Rutkoski, relates the story of a 14-year-old girl named Petra who seeks to recover her father’s eyes from the prince of Bohemia. This past Tuesday, Rutkoski returned to Harvard, where she earned her Ph. D., and spoke with The Crimson about the limits of fantasy, the maddening appeal of Henry James, how Mercator globes have influenced her work. The Harvard Crimson: You say that you grew up with three younger siblings and that you used...
Christensen himself told reporters early in the crisis that South Sudan was the destination. Though he later backed off that claim, Western diplomats have told TIME on condition of anonymity that those suspicions are probably true. On Tuesday, the BBC published a document that it said was the Faina's freight manifest. The contract number on the manifest includes the initials MOD/GOSS - the initials for Ministry of Defense/Government of South Sudan...
...Barack Obama ran that classic, careful late-game offense Tuesday night in the second of three presidential debates this fall. Ahead in the polls, he was safe, cautious, disciplined and boring - and nothing John McCain attempted was enough to lure him into recklessness. By the end of the evening at Belmont University in Nashville, McCain was 90 minutes closer to running out of time...
...spoke, the future for British banking was looking grim. Behemoths such as HBOS and the Royal Bank of Scotland group had seen their shares fall by 39% and 42% respectively on Tuesday, continuing a trend set at the beginning of the week as the FTSE 100 racked up its biggest fall in 21 years. Last month the government was forced to nationalize the mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, and earlier this year it took over another debt-ridden bank, Northern Rock, guaranteeing the deposits of retail customers. Britain's protection scheme for private-sector banks guarantees deposits only...
...eyes are now on the upcoming meeting of G-7 finance ministers and central bank chiefs scheduled for Friday in Washington. On Tuesday, Japan's Prime Minister, Taro Aso, urged industrialized countries to take further measures to shore up credit markets. "The impact would be substantial if the G-7 didn't send a clear message," he said. Meanwhile, as the crisis continues to deepen, Asia's frustration continues to mount. "Masters of the Universe have bitten the dust, the same dust that is now in the mouths of the rest of us," Nirupam Sen, India's permanent representative...