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...Johnson's compulsive honesty that's more likely to torpedo his quest for high office. He says what he's thinking, even when it's shockingly, hilariously off-message. He recently incurred the wrath of Conservative colleagues by urging support for Hillary Clinton on the premise of Vote Hillary, Get Bill. He explains that he was trying to make a serious point about America's damaged standing in the world, adding: "Things come into my head that I find simply impossible not to say and then all sorts of chaos breaks out. But I think it's much better that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Johnson: The Clown Prince | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...short survey of recent adjustments to college life should suffice: in-suite fireplaces sealed up, the House lottery completely randomized, and an unspoken tolerance of underage drinking imperiously overridden. Even these more trivial, yet preciously guarded, traditions of Harvard life have garnered the wrath of the postmodern social engineers who run this University...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: A Tradition to Be Cherished | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...rise in extremism in the country. And he accused the Supreme Court of "weakening the government's resolve" to fight terrorism by ordering the release of 61 suspected terrorists in the government's custody. But it wasn't the extremists who bore the brunt of Musharraf's wrath. Indeed, even as his regime cracked down on lawyers, journalists and human-rights activists, it agreed to a cease-fire with a powerful militant leader who had taken 213 soldiers hostage in the lawless northwestern region. The irony was not lost on Asma Jahangir, Pakistan's best-known human-rights activist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's State of Emergency | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...fire, and then shooting him in the head three times after they watch him writhe and scream. Scenes such as these paint Lucas as far more hotheaded and ferocious than Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone; he rarely spares anyone (whether family or stranger) his physical wrath or his ultra-focused coldness. Even on his wedding night, he ignores his wife, burning an innocent gift from her that jeopardized his drug-lord identity.Nevertheless, the spurts of violence and the explicit examples of drug use are muted by Scott’s use of bright, saturated colors in costuming...

Author: By Erin A. May, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Gangster | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...introductory economics courses that is one of the most popular in the college and who was President Bush’s chief economic adviser from 2003 to 2005. The story said he was now “facing a new and perhaps even more public challenge—the wrath of online bloggers.” One would hope that being a top White House adviser is more challenging than being a professor, even one being discussed in the blogosphere, but that’s a mere quibble. My gripe is that I couldn’t quite figure...

Author: By Michael Kolber | Title: Ombudsman: Some Notes from Summer Crimson | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

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