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...Mugabe's Road "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose," goes the Kris Kristofferson lyric. It might have been written about Zimbabwe's freedom from colonialist rule 28 years ago [March 31]. Now, sadly, that freedom amounts to hyperinflation, barren farms, food scarcities and the flight of millions of citizens. It's time for Mugabe to go. Zimbabwe has nothing left to lose. Ron Eddy, Auckland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...actually blows things up. There, this class watches from half a mile away as plastic explosives rip through two offices, mangling their dummy occupants. Later, a 1988 Thunderbird with 200 lbs. of ammonium nitrate in the trunk erupts in a massive geyser of flame, raining jagged steel onto the barren hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Playas | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...fiscal and labor-related constraints of HUDS certainly are of concern, the health and well-being of the numerous students on campus should not have gone so neglected. After all the house dining halls closed on Friday, March 21, a $35 billion institution became home to possibly hundreds barren bellies and scholar-scavengers. A surprising number of undergraduates are compelled to stay for a wide variety of reasons, all of which call for a daily meal plan. First, many seniors are forced linger over break in order to complete theses. The final deadlines for many departments fall after the break...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Hungry Hungry Harvard | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...Philippe Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines, and derelict factories. Just as dismal, he is told, are the region's residents: beer-guzzling, perpetually-unemployed louts who never saw anything deep-fried they didn't love; who pack large, allegedly inbred families into dilapidated brick row houses; and whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Movie Finds Success in Unlikely Quarter | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...Santa Clara, Calif.I don't think we can imagine what it is like to be fully united with God in his kingdom, but we can have great expectation and hope. I don't think it is a little angel with a harp sitting on a cloud or the barren afterlife we see in so many films. I think it is a rich and wonderful place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Anne Rice | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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