Fareed Zakaria challenges Harvard graduates
- The journalist and author urged graduates to come together to shape world.
Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies
- Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior, and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.
A formal end to nine years of war
- The Pentagon declared an official end to its mission in Iraq yesterday, closing a troubled conflict that helped reshape US politics and left a bitter legacy of anti-US sentiment across the Muslim world.
"Unfortunately, no one would notice if I went on a sex strike."
The decline of violence
- Bad as things may seem, the modern world is actually getting more peaceful. Harvard’s Steven Pinker set out to discover why. (Illustration: Greg Klee)
Yvonne Abraham: Secret garden spots
- Here are secrets well-kept, and for too long. They’re just around the corner, or up a few flights, from the places we go every day. But most of us never see them. (Photo: John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
OP-ED: Conflict resolution is part of Norway’s national DNA
- IT SEEMS so unfair that Norway should become a target of terrorism. Once the scourge of Europe, when Vikings pillaged their way across the continent, Norway is the world’s number one exporter of peace and reconciliation. Wherever there is a conflict you may find a Norwegian up to his elbows trying to solve it.
Hooked by a vacation soundtrack unchanged since … forever
- LONG LAKE, Maine - The scents of pine and lake water, mingled with children’s laughter, fishermen’s banter, and the soft slap of waves against the shore, float through my cabin, carried on an afternoon breeze.
Movie Review - Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
- The short, triumphant, tragic career of Phil Ochs illustrates one of the harder lessons of American popular culture: that audiences are moved far more by mystery than by commitment.
