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...basketball are populated with athletes from poor and working-class backgrounds. And over the past several decades, both sports have been dominated by African Americans. That's never been true of golf - it's still the preserve of whites, élites and the affluent. Tiger changed that, broadened the appeal of the game and brought it to a mass audience. But he did so playing by the same corporate, country-club rules. And so I think any personal transgression was going to hurt him more than it would hurt an Ali or a Jordan. What's amazing, to some extent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Tiger Woods' Apology Affect His Image? A TIME Debate | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...appeal was packaged in emotion. He spoke of visiting wounded warriors at Walter Reed Medical Center, and of signing condolence letters for Americans who have died - 299 so far this year - in Afghanistan. He evoked the wisdom of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, and announced that Americans were "heirs to a noble struggle for freedom," with a "resolve unwavering." But none of it really distracted from the difficulty of the task. Less than a year into his presidency, Obama had to come before the nation to explain that it was losing a war. "The status quo is not sustainable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Plan Match the Stagecraft? | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...Treblinka death camp in Poland. The U.S. government revoked his citizenship and, in 1987, Demjanjuk went on trial in Israel, accused of being the notorious guard Ivan the Terrible. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. But in 1993, his conviction was overturned on appeal by the Israeli Supreme Court, which ruled that he wasn't the guard in question. Demjanjuk returned to the U.S., but German authorities soon requested his extradition. Demjanjuk's family argued he was too ill to travel, but they lost their legal battle and he was finally deported to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demjanjuk's Trial: The Last Nazi War-Crimes Defendant | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Explaining Sarah Palin's appeal in the Los Angeles Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Milo, not a novel. To pretend otherwise is wishful thinking, no different from Philip's belief that he can master death. At some moments the book seems to anticipate its shattered future--Nabokov compares Flora to "an unwritten, half-written, rewritten difficult book." That's part of her appeal and, oddly, part of Laura's too. You admire what you can see, and you dream about what might have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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