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...longer than the past two. "It's a very different story today," says First Eagle's Jean-Marie Eveillard, one of the few managers to produce positive returns when stocks plunged earlier this decade. "The landscape is different, and the recovery, when it comes, probably won't be along the lines of what we have seen in the post--World War II period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Invest for an Economic Rebound | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...territory that it lost most of its audience Sunday night. There were scenes - the woman's attack on her husband's sex organs, then her mutilation of her own - where you could hear "Oh, come on!" muttered in several languages. There's nothing wrong with a movie going crazy along with its characters, as we noted in our Thirst review two days ago, but von Trier doesn't have the craft to bring the moviegoer along in the most extreme parts of Antichrist. The thought was that we were being subject to the spectacle, not of a woman going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antichrist: Von Trier's Porno Horror Rhapsody | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...without fail, it began once again—the flurry of e-mails hit the Eliot House list. With the famed Fete only days away, Eliot students of all classes, from rising sophomores through soon-to-be-graduating seniors, began posting their formal tickets for sale, along with desired prices. While the occasional solicitor lamented his or her inability to make the end-of-year ball, munificently allowing some layman the chance to enter the white tent in his or her place, more and more of the e-mails appeared to be planned and timed in advance. Deadlines of when...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: House Life (Or Best Offer) | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...society as technologically far along as the U.S., we do a surprisingly poor job of looking after our tiniest members. About 99% of all births in the U.S. take place in hospitals, yet we rank 29th in the world in infant mortality - below Hungary and tied with Slovakia and Poland - with 6.71 deaths per 1,000 live births. That compares to a rate of about 3.5 deaths per 1,000 live births in Far Eastern and Scandinavian countries such as Singapore, Japan, Norway and Sweden. (See TIME's photos of spiritual healing around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors Versus Midwives: The Birth Wars Rage On | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

...changes would be more heavy-handed. Those phone-payment fees would be prohibited outright (unless a customer asks for expedited service, a genuine additional cost which the card company would be allowed to pass along). It could also be substantially harder to market or sell credit cards to young people (those under either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress's Credit-Card Bill: Playing Fair, Not Foul | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

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