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...fall 2007-2008. “I take every single student as seriously as I do my colleagues,” Ritter says. “When I prepare to give a talk to my colleagues, I obviously prepare very well. I think it’s also very import to prepare very well for teaching.” Charles Liu ’11, a premed who took Chem 30 rather than the more biologically-inclined Chem 17-Chem 27 track, speaks highly of Ritter. “He’s definitely one of the reasons I decided...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Faculty Hot Shots: Tobias Ritter | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...sort of thrilled. We're a country that wastes half the food we import. With the recession, people are learning to cook and learning to cook more mindfully, opening their homes to their friends again instead of spending all their private time in public places [like restaurants]. Michelle Obama out there planting a garden on the White House lawn is a wonderful message. For someone like me who's spent my whole life trying to get people to go into the kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ruth Reichl | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...reflect, Victorian novel-style. Lateef, on the other hand, is a stock character; the spiritually exhausted public servant, who experiences a mid-career crisis of confidence and develops an inappropriate affection for Violet Heller. Somehow it seems like this is supposed to illustrate the novel’s metaphysical import. It just doesn’t really work...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Style Forces Substance Underground | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...army and imposes some of his own laws and taxes. Now Kadyrov is also expected to get his longstanding wish of international status for Grozny's airport, and therefore a full-scale customs operation. This will not only attract investment, but also, experts say, allow Kadyrov to export and import capital and travel as he pleases, giving him more independence from Moscow. "Ramzan [Kadyrov] knows he can make a lot of money with Chechnya as part of Russia," says Malashenko. "But he wants it to be special, like a foreign country within Russia's borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Chechnya Pullout: Compromise Over Victory | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...world repeatedly looked on in shock at acts of French rebellion, including the occupation of airport runways by striking Air France workers to stop flights for days, and the paralysis of French highways by protesting truck drivers. Similar dismay resounded abroad at images of French farmers, angered by the import of cheaper goods, capturing trucks from the U.K., Spain, and other European Union countries and dumping or burning their cargo - which often included live animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the French Love to Strike | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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