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...delay is just the latest indication of the power shift from the Overseers to the Corporation that has evolved over a century and a half...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers’ Decision Held from Overseers | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...studded with Latin names. Roughly half the principal dancers in the Boston and Miami City ballets are Latins. American Ballet Theatre (A.B.T.) features so many that one of its principals says it "should be called Latin Ballet Theatre." Lynn Garafola, a dance historian at Barnard College, summed up the shift in a Dance Magazine article whose headline proclaimed LATIN IS THE NEW RUSSIAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst! The Cubans Are Coming | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...fans say they plan to boycott the film. Around the time the online protest emerged, Craig, who is really almost 6 ft. tall, knocked out two teeth filming a fight scene in Prague and faced the emasculating rumor that he couldn't handle his Aston Martin's stick shift. Ex-Bonds Brosnan and Roger Moore spoke up for the new recruit. "He's a helluva good actor," said Moore, noting that no one has yet seen Craig in the role. "So why attack him?" See, Daniel, at least there are spies who love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 6, 2006 | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...security is compromised, and that gives fences the chance to demand a larger cut for laundering cash. Then the authorities offer a bigger than usual reward--in the Securitas case, $3.5 million, enough to turn the heads of many villains, or villains' wives. Most dangerously, you have to physically shift the stolen goods--and the Tonbridge robbers had a lot of baggage to haul around. "If you have £40 million in £50 notes," says Jeffrey Robinson, a security expert and author in London, "you are talking about 800,000 pieces of paper. That would weigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Villainy of the Old School | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

Momani’s query foregrounds the critical issue facing Muslims across the globe: at what point will Muslim anger and unrest shift its target from the traditional Western enemies to the violent sects internal to Islam. The answer...

Author: By Alec N. Halaby | Title: Disavowing Violence | 2/24/2006 | See Source »

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