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...first caught wind of this perk when he became Hollis Professor of Divinity in 2002. The only Hollis professors known to graze their cows in the Yard were Edward Wigglesworth, the first to hold this position in 1722, and his son who succeeded...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Bovine Alert: Holy Cow To Graze in Harvard Yard | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...have been together for seven years and have known each other since they met in graduate school 20 years ago, Simmons said yesterday...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Mayor Simmons Marries Longtime Partner in Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ceremony | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...have been hidden on the ship during the two weeks it spent in Kaliningrad for repairs, just before it picked up its Finnish haul of timber. Not contiguous with the rest of Russia, Kaliningrad is the country's westernmost enclave on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and is known as a hub for Russian smugglers. "Personally, I don't care about any missiles," Voitenko tells TIME. "I care about what they're doing with those sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Russia's 'Hijacked' Ship Carrying Missiles to the Mideast? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...used at any pumping station. Up to 100 liters (26 gallons) a month could be bought at a still subsidized price of about 38 cents a gallon. After the 100 liters is up, drivers can pay a fixed price of about $1.50 a gallon for any additional gasoline, known as the "open price." (For comparison, U.S. gasoline prices averaged $2.63 per gallon at the end of August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pressuring Iran on Nukes: Would a Gas Embargo Help? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...Kokang, under a commander named Peng Jiasheng, recently rejected the regime's border-force offer. Soon afterward, gun battles erupted between the Burmese military and elements of Peng's Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, as the Kokang militia is known. Throughout August, the Burmese army made incursions into the Kokang enclave, a region it had largely kept out of since the 1989 cease-fire was signed. The initial reason given by the junta for its forays into Kokang territory was that a weapons factory there was being used to churn out illegal narcotics. Several of the ethnic militias in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Violence Erupted on the China-Burma Border | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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