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...young mother enters the shop cradling a baby in a lace bonnet. Omar cuts her a hunk of meat from a carcass hanging in the window, then writes down her name in a ledger. "These are the people who can't pay me. See? Many pages. Thousands of shekels. But how can I refuse them?" he asks. The woman leaves, and the shop is empty save for a few flies stirred in the air by a ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Shadow of the Six-Day War | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...weekends, Harvard’s student body is as fashionable as it’s ever been with garb that contrasts markedly with students’ casual wear in class and in dining halls. Suffice it to say that we have long ago forsaken the grey smock and matching bonnet of the 17th century, but just what kind of people are we to be so well-attired these days? This past weekend, I pushed myself to come down from Mather Tower, the concrete structure incongruously named after the notable Puritan, and took to the streets in search of an answer...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dressed Up, Acting Up | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...long-life batteries, and, on the sides, a pick, shovel, and mats for bogged wheels. Three Panic Trucks have been built and five are in the works, says Watson, who loves the passion with which people embrace his creations: "They'll say, 'Oh, I got a chip on my bonnet.' And I'll say, 'Well, it's only a car.' And they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Road Warriors | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...this room and nowhere else. One of them is wearing a colorful, flowered hat. Clark's handler leans over: ?Ten days ago, he had a street named after him in Kosovo, today he?s on a science panel with a man named ?Darksyde? and a woman in a bonnet. That is democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ambitious Pols Make Their Pilgrimage to Yearly Kos | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

...island, several accomplished foreign artists had already been there, drawn by the romantic lure of a tropical paradise free of the stresses and neuroses of what was coming to be known as "modern civilization." While other artists, including the German painter Walter Spies and the Dutchman Rudolf Bonnet, were busily creating the myth of the Island of the Gods, concentrating on the exotic beauty of its bare-breasted maidens and graceful adolescent boys, Covarrubias delved deeper, following his anthropological research into the soul of Bali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stranger in Paradise | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

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