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...lost - back and forth. When Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the law lord who partitioned India, drew the 1947 border, Cooch Behar went to India and Rangpur to Bangladesh - including the people who lived on the two kings' 162 "chit mahals," or paper palaces. Their villages, caught on the wrong side of the border, are now small islands of India surrounded by Bangladesh or vice versa. Elsewhere in this same stretch of border are villages that simply refuse to accept the lines drawn by Radcliffe's pen. New Delhi backs those that want to stay in India, despite the legal claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Great Divide | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...setting off the red fire-alarm box near his modest brick house on 101st Street. Nearly everyone tried it once, but not Eric, the churchgoing Boy Scout who knew the consequence of disobeying rules: "A good, quick smack on the bottom," his mother Miriam recalls. "If you did something wrong, you're going to have to pay a price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prosecutor | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Walter Isaacson's thought-provoking cover story "How to Save Your Newspaper" suggests that the road we all went down--not charging for content online--may well have been the wrong one. He says a system of micropayments could be the answer to getting great and important journalism to pay for itself. But only consumers can ratify and verify that idea. And I think people would. I know there are 3.3 million TIME subscribers who believe that the perspective and knowledge we give you every week in the magazine and every day online are worth paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom Isn't Free | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Girls” manage to stay true to the old Franz Ferdinand aesthetic while adding these newer elements. That said, they fail to replicate the magic of their most popular single, “Take Me Out.” The album goes wrong when they depart almost completely from their template, evident in “Lucid Dreams.” The song clocks in at nearly 8 minutes and much of that is a dub odyssey with a lazy, reggae-influenced beat. The album’s version of “Lucid Dreams?...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Franz Ferdinand | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...antiaircraft missiles that Israeli intelligence was sure that Iran had provided. "It's an enigma," one IDF officer says. "The air over Gaza was thick with drones, helicopters and F-16s, and Hamas didn't fire a single missile at them." Two possible explanations: either Israeli intelligence was wrong and Hamas simply didn't have the weapons or the militants are saving them for the next round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel and Hamas Prepare for the Next Gaza War | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

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