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...Although a concession isn't required for Yudhoyono to assume office, Megawati's silence has hamstrung efforts to ensure a smooth political transition. Indeed, with the Oct. 20 inauguration looming, she has given little sign that she intends to meet with her successor at all. Meanwhile, Yudhoyono has twice canceled planned acceptance speeches, and aides tell TIME that he is reluctant to make any overt assertions of power in deference to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megawati Loses Out | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen; the $10 million ANSARI X PRIZE, created in 1996 by MIT graduate Peter Diamandis to make low-cost space travel accessible to the public; in Mojave, California. To win the prize, the rocket had to fly into space and return to earth twice in less than a week. According to SpaceShipOne's designer Burt Rutan, the prize covers less than half of Allen's original investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

Harvard’s offense was not without its deficiencies, turning over the ball twice after losing the ball only once in their first three games. But Cornell went three-and-out following both a questionable first-quarter fumble and a third-quarter interception, Fitzpatrick’s first of the year...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Win Keeps Football Perfect | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism, and the culture at large, was immeasurable. DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, California. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training - and famously brilliant at it nonetheless - Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours. In the lunar program, NASA preferred more by-the-book pilots, and Cooper never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/10/2004 | See Source »

...sold out twice in Boston—it must be because we’re so popular,” Jeff Tweedy said towards the end of the set, the sarcasm dripping off his scraggly beard. With one last smirk, he managed to capture the enigmatic essence of Wilco...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilco’s Reborn Sound Bridges Generations | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

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