Every fall the professors at Beloit College publish their Mindset List, a dictionary of all the deeply ingrained cultural references that will make no sense to the bright-eyed students of the incoming class. It’s a kind of time travel, to remind us how far we’ve come
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Bidding Adieu to France
Re “Why they leave France” [April 16]: There is a typically French disease that prompts citizens to overcriticize the country. Those judgments are, most of the time, merciless and exaggerated
Postpartum Depression in New Dads: Fathers Get It Too
Postpartum depression is a familiar rite of new parenthood. Feelings of emptiness, sadness and anxiety settle in after the birth of a child, and in severe cases last for months
Grammy Nominees Put Full Sail University in the Spotlight
At this year’s Grammys, the five nominees for Album of the Year have something peculiar in common: they were all were mixed or engineered by graduates of Full Sail University. In fact, this year’s Grammy-nominated projects were worked on by 74 alums of Full Sail U in total
Will There Be Any Hope For The Poor?
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent.
Life After High School
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote about many scary things: the firebombing of Dresden, the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the specter of individuals controlled by the state or by technology
Exclusive: On the Set of the New Muppets Movie
I’m not sure whether the vibe is coming from the Muppets or from Jason Segel, but everyone is really happy on this set.
National Defense: THE STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA
On the two following pages TIME presents a map of the most important strategic area in the Western Hemisphere: the approaches to the Panama Canal.Until the U. S.
TAXATION: Spelling Bee
“Actually, any one who gives the matter unbiased consideration will realize that it is for the benefit of the rich to plug loopholes in tax laws, since this raises more revenues without raising rates.” With this neat bit of logic, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week opened the great 1937 hunt for rich tax dodgers launched so suddenly by him and Franklin Roosevelt early this month .
Defiance with a Smile: Mladic Faces Genocide Survivors in Court
Defiant and unrepentant, former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic made his first appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on Friday, in a preliminary hearing during which he refused to enter a plea to the 11 counts against him — including genocide, extermination, and murder.