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...Officers were dispatched to investigate a report of an unknown individual on the roof of 30 Kennedy St. banging on the skylights. The officers located the individual and a warrant check turned up negative. They arrested Daniel J. Kissane, 46, of Dorchester...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...Philippines is a land of storytellers, but the saga of the modern nation remains largely unknown beyond its own shores. Han Ong would appear to be in a good position to fill the post of bard. The native Filipino immigrated to the U.S. when he was 16, achieved success there as a playwright and won a MacArthur "genius" fellowship. His first novel, Fixer Chao, was about a Filipino male prostitute in New York City who poses as a feng-shui expert to fleece the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Strange Magic | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...like shooting rabbit or partridge. Before shooting you think, you contemplate, you look, look, look, look. Then you shoot and get it' ... Last week Cartier-Bresson contemplated the windowed gorges of Manhattan ... He took his camera everywhere about the city, peering, with an explorer's lust for the unknown, into thousands of hurrying faces. 'Human faces,' Cartier-Bresson mused, 'are such a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...executive vice president of ready-to-wear at Federated Department Stores, the retail giant that will feature the line in Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Burdines and Bon-Macy's. "Chou and Stroll know how to market. Look what they did for Tommy Hilfiger. Before them he was a total unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Of An Icon | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...pretty obvious even to nonscientists that how you get there depends partly on the genes you are born with and partly on lifestyle--what and how much you eat, where you live and what types of stress and trauma you experience. How much depends on each factor, though, was unknown until Swedish scientists tackled the problem in 1998. They did it by looking at the only set of people who share genes but not lifestyle: identical twins who were separated at birth and reared apart. If genes were most important, you would expect the twins to die at about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Live To Be 100 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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