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...fault for not enforcing appropriate standards. While Eleganza is an extreme case of failed donations and was eventually reprimanded after 13 years of misleading advertising, no firm regulations prevent the general practice. Nor has the administration ever attempted to raise awareness about the existence of false donation promises, an act that would increase public scrutiny and prevent organizers’ abilities to make false promises. The administration’s nonchalant attitude toward imaginative interpretations of the term “charity event” is unacceptable, and it is its duty to apply firmer rules and enforce greater transparency...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Charitable Misgivings | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...government and the two big U.S. car companies faced a balancing act between cutting the size and complexity of their distribution networks quickly or doing it in a more orderly fashion. Customers might have been encouraged to stay if the manufacturers offered special financing on cars owned by shuttered dealers. It would have been a good way to pick up or save a new car buyer. It would have created some goodwill. GM and Chrysler could also have introduced customers to dealers that are staying open in their part of the country. They could have offered a year's free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM and Chrysler: The Revenge of the Car Dealers | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

...plan settles a dispute between the state of California and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that dates back to George W. Bush's White House. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the right to enforce air-pollution standards that are tougher than the rest of the nation's rules - provided the EPA gives it a waiver. In the past, such waivers had been all but automatic - but when California tried to pass stricter emissions standards for vehicles, the Bush EPA balked, setting up a string of legal battles. California pressed its right to green its millions of cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama to Tighten Fuel-Economy Standards | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

...deprived of joy, frivolous play, fantasy and attractive positions," writes Father Knotz, who lives in a monastery of the Order of Friars outside Kraków in Stalowa Wola in southern Poland. "They think it has to be sad, like a traditional church hymn. But every act, caress or sexual position that has the goal of arousal is permitted and pleases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Union: A Polish Monk's Divine-Sex Guide | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

...When asked whether a celibate priest is qualified to write about sex, Father Knotz said that much of his book stems from questions he has encountered running a website that counsels married couples. The site, called A Chance to Meet, presents a sexual act "as a meeting that occurs not only between a husband and wife who love each other but also between the married couple and God," and offers advice in both Polish and English. (See pictures of famously unmarried couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Union: A Polish Monk's Divine-Sex Guide | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

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