Dalai Lama cuts little ice in Japan

"TOKYO - Ignoring the fact that Japan has a sizeable Buddhist population, the government of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda cold-shouldered the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, during his 10-day visit that ended last Friday. Not one government official met one of the...

MIT dean resigns over misrepresented credentials

"Marilee Jones, a prominent crusader against the pressure on students to build their resumes for elite colleges, resigned Thursday as dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after acknowledging she had misrepresented her own academic credentials. Jones...

Green "star candidate" from Alberta?

"Green Party leader Elizabeth May has said in an interview with the National Post that the Green Party will have at least one seat in the House of Commons after the next election -- that sure seat, she says, will be in Alberta because she has managed to recruit a "star"...

The Journalist Who Spied

"Pham Xuan An, a reporter for TIME during the Vietnam War who was later revealed to be a communist agent, has died. TIME's former Saigon bureau chief remembers him The Vietnam war produced astonishing stories and personalities. But nothing quite like Time correspondent Pham...