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...adopt the manifest-destiny-like strategy of Thefacebook and aggressively expand to Boston University, Boston College, Wellesley, Northeastern and Tufts. While Harvard’s 6,500 students are an interesting bunch, the amorous possibilities of having tens of thousands of area college students linked together in one vast electronic embrace are too great to imagine. Harvard men and women alike would be able to finally take advantage of one of the reasons that convinced them to go here in the first place: Boston’s status as a college town par excellence...
Downside Individuals saw few gains. In a vast scandal, private pension firms exaggerated expected returns, and they were forced to pay $24 billion in damages. With little faith in the system, workers contribute to private accounts at a relatively low rate. Experts are worried that more retirees will end up poor...
...disappearances, bizarre quests, disaffected youth and a Japan struggling with its wartime past. He is also noted for his nonfiction books about the 1995 Kobe earthquake and Tokyo subway gas attack, as well as his translations of works by American masters, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Raymond Carver. So vast is Murakami's fame that nearly as many books have been written about him as by him. A Taiwanese newspaper has even suggested that his visage may one day grace a Japanese banknote, as does that of Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume, a Murakami influence. Others Murakami admires...
Theater producer-director George C. Wolfe, directing his first film, took Blues to the stage, and here he adds a vast cast and a kinetic style. He has gathered a stellar ensemble, including Santiago-Hudson as well as Delroy Lindo, Louis Gossett Jr. and Jeffrey Wright, as the various misfits who pass on their stories to Ruben...
...more than a decade, Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, masterminded a vast, clandestine and hugely profitable enterprise whose mission boiled down to this: selling to a rogues' gallery of nations the technology and equipment to make nuclear weapons. Among Khan's customers were Iran and North Korea--two countries identified by Bush as members of the "axis of evil," whose nuclear ambitions present the U.S. with two of its biggest foreign policy quandaries. At a moment when the international community is focused on a potential showdown with Iran, a TIME investigation has revealed that Khan's network...