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...appear to be well. His skin appeared sallow. His eyes were almost gelatinous. His handshake seemed rather weak, and when he spoke there was a constant undercurrent of paranoia. He even seemed to put a figurative gun in the hands of us journalists, saying we don't need to shoot him, that our words have that kind of effect. He was clearly viewing himself as a martyr and it was very bothersome to realize that over 900 lives were in the hands of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: A Jonestown Survivor Remembers | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...says that over the past two months, she has grown increasingly pessimistic. She sees Japan recording at least two years of negative growth, the first time that has happened since the property and banking bubbles burst in the late 1980s, leading to Japan's so-called Lost Decade. With weak export and domestic demand, she says, there is "no positive driver in the Japanese economy, if you think about the two-year horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan Has Slipped Into Recession | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...forte, so we were very aware of it, we practiced it. We didn’t tackle great, for one thing.”A sack, an incompletion, and a short completion spelled another three-and-out for the Crimson’s offense, which had an uncharacteristically weak day, gaining just 261 yards of total offense, significantly below the 412 yards per game Harvard averaged prior to the contest.“We didn’t have much of a rhythm on offense,” Pizzotti said. “They’re basically...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Penn Picked Off | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...political analyst Dad Noorani believes that Karzai may have unwittingly undermined his already weak standing with his defiant statement. "When he said the international community has two choices, he clearly discredited himself," Noorani said. "All along he has been saying that he was elected by the Afghan people, and now he says if the international community does not accept his offer to Mullah Omar, then they can remove him or leave. How can the international community remove him if he is elected?" Safi agrees: "This just proves that the whole election was a farce, and that Karzai is President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Overture: Behind Karzai's Appeal to Mullah Omar | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

Cities with weak or no laws, such as Worcester, saw dramatic shifts in public health after the implementation of the statewide ban. By the end of 2006, there was virtually no difference in rates of heart attack fatality throughout the state...

Author: By Emily J. Hogan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smoking Ban Leads to Fewer Fatalities | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

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