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Well, Dartboard hopes students are prepared for the starvation and thirst yet to come this reading period. While they’re struck by headaches and groaning stomachs, at least they can rest assured knowing that they have Dartboard’s sympathies—Lamont certainly won�...

Author: By Sarah R. Lieber, | Title: Dartboard | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

Despite security warnings from his intelligence service and the fearful concerns of his wife and three children, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra flew to southern Thailand last week to deal with the aftermath of the April 28 bloodbath in which security forces killed 108 alleged Islamic militants. Hundreds of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hearts and Pockets | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

Decades of social-science dogma depicted the human mind as having few built-in features--kind of like a computer with no programs, a blank slate. Pinker, along with others in the young field of evolutionary psychology, disagrees. For starters, he argued in The Language Instinct, we have a genetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steven Pinker: How Our Minds Evolved | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

The exchange was classic Arbour: a singular balance of strength and empathy. During her three years as chief prosecutor of war crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, this remarkable Canadian stood up to the bullies and stood up for the victims. She demonstrated courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louise Arbour | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

There are not many doctors of metaphysics whose simple precepts are followed by millions across the globe. There are still fewer political leaders who are practicing monks held by their colleagues to be incarnations of their gods of compassion. And there can be only one human being alive today who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dalai Lama | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

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