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Leading Russia into the Future Since you acknowledge that person of the Year Vladimir Putin [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008] has distinguished himself by "choosing order before freedom," I wonder why you didn't select President George W. Bush a third time for his choosing safety from terrorism before terrorists' rights [Dec. 31, 2007?Jan. 7, 2008]. No, TIME would much rather recognize a virtual dictator for his supposed achievements: violently suppressing dissent, crushing the free press and heading a regime that has been accused of murdering opponents and expropriating private property for the state. On the other hand...
...have to wonder who filled out the Academy ballots this year. A good portion of the membership is old enough to call John McCain "Kid." Did the old-timers really go for the ultra-violent No Country and Blood enough to give those two films the most nominations? I know of some octogenarian members who'd let their grandchildren do the voting, under the theory that the job should be done by people who'd actually seen the movies. But this is, by and large, a very Generation Y, double-frappuccino list. The main exceptions are Atonement, an old-fashioned...
...reserving himself the right to say anything, Sarkozy hasn't gotten into the habit of contradicting himself by uttering just about everything. Indeed, in the past two weeks alone, various declarations by the president have proven so starkly at odds with one another that some observers are beginning to wonder if he isn't a touch, well, Sarkotic...
...students recall his infectious curiosity. “I remember being a student in a lab with him, looking at the data from an experiment and thinking it was a total failure. And he’d look at the same data and say ‘I wonder why ‘x’? Why did it turn out that way?’ To his thinking, there was no such thing as a failed experiment.” said Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., a pathology professor at HMS and Folkman’s first thesis student...
...thousands, of Harvard students will benefit, as will their peers at a handful of other High Society schools. But anyone with the misfortune to end up at a school without Harvard’s cash-flow problem—namely, having too much of it—will wonder what all the fuss was about.But damn the details; Harvard was back in primetime, fighting the fight of the American middle class. Take that, John Edwards.After Harvard’s headlines were sidelined by presidential primaries during the holidays, the University’s new academic calendar, announced with great fanfare...