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...interview for some schmoozing or fun. He kicks a football around with Chávez, shares coca leaves with Morales, quizzes Kirchner on how many pairs of shoes she owns. (A little annoyed at the implicit comparison to Imelda Marcos, Kirchner replies, "If I were a man, would you ask me how many pairs of pants I own?") Accompanying Chávez to the mud hut where he was born, Stone directs the President in a scene: ride around the yard on the bicycle you had as a kid. Chávez mounts the tiny bike and takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South of the Border: Chávez and Stone's Love Story | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...play "aims to create awareness and discussion about waterboarding as a form of torture." How, you may ask? Well, performers Nadeem Mazen and Stephanie M. Skier '05 will be waterboarding each other for approximately three minutes of the show. Find out more after the jump...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: A Tortured Affair | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...most recent budget-cut tactic has been to implement hour reductions among staff while still expecting essentially the same amount of work to be done in less time. Although hour reductions appear to be a compromise, and perhaps a better option than layoffs, reducing hours continues to ask the lowest-paid workers at Harvard to bear an inequitable share of the financial burden. Staffers are physically strained by the work, and financially strained by the reduction in pay. Although hours reductions are preferable to layoffs because workers retain health benefits along with their continued paychecks, cutting the hours of people...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Losing a Living Wage | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...post-Labor Day moratorium on white clothing and accessories has long ranked among etiquette hard-liners' most sacred rules. As punishment for breaking it in the 1994 movie Serial Mom, for instance, Patty Hearst's character was murdered by a punctilious psychopath. But ask your average etiquette expert how that rule came to be, and chances are that even she couldn't explain it. So why aren't we supposed to wear white after Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Can't Wear White After Labor Day | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

Next Questions Ask Jane Goodall your questions for an upcoming interview, at time.com/10questions

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Andy Roddick | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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