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...Beijing in 2001 that hosting the Olympics would shine an increasingly bright spotlight on its dismal rights record. In fact, rights advocates inside and outside China say a string of recent convictions and the imprisoning of activists all over the country are just the latest in a yearlong, wide-ranging crackdown designed to stifle even the slightest sign of dissent ahead of the Games. Even China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited as the country's most powerful force for greater openness, has felt the heat. Thousands of websites have been shuttered while government...
...icon in the American cultural landscape for a long time, and on the occasion of our 85th, we wanted to offer a brief look back at how the magazine has covered some of the most historic events of the past and show how we have evolved from a wide-eyed start-up to the premier global news brand. Later this spring we will publish TIME: 85 Years of Great Writing, a collection of some of our favorite and most famous stories by our best writers. Several of those stories are mentioned on the following pages. As ever, TIME...
...wins the wide-open central part of the state...
Seven months after Harvard launched a campus-wide text message alert system, the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) yesterday started two new safety alert programs of its own: The Cambridge Alert Network and Text-a-Tip. The Cambridge Alert Network will send text messages or e-mails with community safety alert to participants. Text-a-Tip works the other way around, enabling community members to send safety alerts to the CPD so that the police can warn other people through the Cambridge Alert Network. These services are both provided through Citizen Observer, an Internet company that the Boston Police Department...
...pull to do newer stuff. There’s a freshness to the modern pieces. But “Twelfth Night” is still coming up every once in a while. It’s always interesting to see what pops up in a season. People like a wide variety of things, and when you get a group of people excited about something at the same time, you can never know what will happen. It’s been such a good season so far. It’s really exciting to come to the same idea from...