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...were incompetent or unpopular--sometimes the most competent were the least popular--were deposed on the spot. The typical 17th century account of Jamestown argues that everything would have gone well if everyone besides the author had not done wrong. Smith, for instance, described his fellow colonists as "ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth than ... to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Inventing America | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...transitions into and out of work and why they make different choices about work and family.“Equivalent men and women, who go to the same college, graduate from the same law school, get the same job after graduation—we see them ten years later, the guy’s making a gazillion and the woman is in a small practice making maybe 60 percent as much,” Goldin says.“Why is that the case? Most likely, she made a conscious decision to shift into a smaller practice that didn?...

Author: By Sophie M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

After a series of questions and monosyllabic answers, I thought he had given up. But ten minutes later I received...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Brief Affair with 24D | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...more technical difficulties than the president let on; furthermore, Iran would need 54,000 centrifuges running a lot more efficiently than those currently in place to be able to produce industrial-grade enriched uranium. Current estimates from a number of different quarters say Iran is somewhere between four and ten years away from having the capacity to produce nuclear-weapons materiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Iran Nuclear Compromise? | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...Students said the deodorizer was only a small improvement. “They covered it with a really strong floral powder,” Horn said. “It was like a sickly sweet rotting smell.” She added that the smell was “ten times worse” for the dining hall staff than for the students. Students and staff say the smell began to fade toward the end of the week. “It sort of built to a pinnacle of smelliness and then gradually declined,” Mallick said. Horn...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams Odor Pinned to Pipes | 4/24/2007 | See Source »

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