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...Seth family member who, improbably, has become the co-subject of one of the most remarkable biographies since, well, the 18th century, when James Boswell profiled Samuel Johnson. Boswell had it easy: Johnson was the leading literary figure of the age. But Seth's Two Lives focuses on people unknown to all but friends and family: Seth's great-uncle Shanti and great-aunt Henny, with whom the author lived in north London for several years as a student. Though these two hardly changed the course of history, the passion and eloquence Seth brings to their story makes Two Lives...
...find his plantation in tatters. Now, with his profits, he has built a house and sends his children to school. Rwandan beans are jumping these days: this year's crop sold out, with Green Mountain coffee, Whole Foods and other companies eagerly buying. "Rwanda has gone from being completely unknown to being the hottest coffee origin in 2005," says Schilling, who runs pearl in Rwanda. pearl had to solve farmers' financing issues, too; many can't wait six to nine months between harvest and payment. So pearl partnered with EcoLogic Finance, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that loans to businesses...
...absolutely terrified. Nothing prepares you for being suddenly on the front line of an invasion, with 200 cannons going off, and people returning fire, and being in the pitch black in the desert, knowing that you're just going forward across the line of departure, and into the complete unknown on the other side. Nothing prepares you for that level of anxiety. I think most of the embeds felt it. I, perhaps, because I didn't really want to be there, had it slightly worse...
...obtained by TIME details what a source close to the investigation says was an early indication of Titan Rain's ability to cause widespread havoc. Hundreds of Defense Department computer systems had been penetrated by an insidious program known as a "trojan," the alert warned. "These compromises ... allow an unknown adversary not only control over the DOD hosts, but also the capability to use the DOD hosts in malicious activity. The potential also exists for the perpetrator to potentially shut down each host." The attacks were also stinging allies, including Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where an unprecedented string...
Making a Robert Altman movie is a leap into the unknown for everyone involved, including Altman. Oh, sure, there's a script--in this case by Garrison Keillor, who based it closely on A Prairie Home Companion, the public-radio hit he has presided over since 1974. But Altman is notorious for treating a script as merely a series of signposts. In films from M*A*S*H to Nashville to Gosford Park, he has thrived on improvisation, spontaneity, happy accidents. "What I'm looking for is occurrence, truthful human behavior," he says. "We've got a kind of road...