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...problem is that the known particulars of the case-aside from fact that the victim had drifted into town looking for work and had a vague interest in a movie career-do not especially match the cosmic sociological maunderings that have surrounded it. The cops may have been inept, but there is no reason to suppose that they were deviously protecting a psychotic murderer. Nor is there any reason to imagine that the criminal was socially well connected or was a Hollywood type (even though a preposterous rumor, repeated dismissively in a recent biography, put no less a figure than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Review: The Black Dahlia | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

...surprised” that the questions on political ideology asked only about economic and social policy. But this senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations found “Harvard and Beyond” to be more precise and not a victim of what he called a “common pathology,” with answer sets that aren’t exhaustive or don’t correspond to actual responses. As the basis for their own survey, the principal investigators looked at previous surveys, including the Mellon Foundation’s deacde...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Econ Study to Track 20,000 Harvard Alums | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

Thanks to the College’s Curricular Review, the Core Curriculum, that onerous set of requirements that has burdenered undergrads for a generation, will soon, finally, be extinct. But that’s of little help to you, fellow undergraduate, for you will be the victim of The Core at its worst, as, in its dying throes, it falls into disrepair, left to waste as professors turn their attention instead to bolstering the forthcoming general education requirements.Before you can graduate and properly be called an educated Harvard Man or Woman, you must complete courses in seven of the Core?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Core | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...thing, there's a simple justification for speculating on Bush's possible death: a strange mathematical coincidence. Since 1840, the previous nine presidents elected in a year divisible by 20 has either been killed (four), died in office of natural causes (four) or, like Reagan, been the victim of an assassin's bullet. Bush, declared the winner of the 2000 election, is next in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Killed George Bush? | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...stops here because I protected the family with my magic line." AGENDA PURBA, Sumatran witch doctor, after treating a suspected bird-flu victim who had escaped from a hospital, explaining how he prevented the spread of the disease. Many rural villagers believe avian flu to be the result of black magic, complicating efforts to contain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/4/2006 | See Source »

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