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In his Afterword to Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov wrote that one of the subjects taboo to American publishers was that of "the total atheist who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of 106." New Line, having invested something like $180 million in The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Would Jesus See? | 12/8/2007 | See Source »

The battle to own Musa Qala is expected to be intense, because of its value to both sides. For the Taliban, there's major symbolic value in being able to hold a town in a country ostensibly under the control of more than 40,000 NATO troops and their Afghan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Afghanistan, a Do-Over Battle | 12/8/2007 | See Source »

The original version of this article inaccurately stated that Accuray's CyberKnife system, which noninvasively delivers radiation to cancerous tissue, "can?t be used when the disease has metastasized or to treat very large tumors." Since CyberKnife is a local therapy, it cannot be used alone to treat metastatic cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cutting Edge Alternative to Cutting | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

This weekend, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ “The Mikado” went up at Agassiz Theater. “Mikado,” which tells a story of love, law, and decapitation, is among Gilbert and Sullivan’s 14 light operas of the...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin | Title: Orientalism and ‘The Mikado’ | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

As the snow blanketed the Yard last night, a small group of aspiring epicureans practiced seeing, swirling, sniffing, sipping, and savoring wines as part of Harvard Student Agencies’ (HSA) introductory wine-tasting course. Throughout the evening, five undergraduate attendees sampled 21 kinds of wine, describing them as having...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Pop the Cork at Wine Tasting | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

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