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...beginning, everyone thought it was a fine idea. It would bring much needed funds to the region and the Italian government even promised there would be a basketball court where our very own president, Barack H. Obama, could shoot hoops after a long, stressful day of trying to solve the world’s problems. Each country sent a delegation to make sure the accommodations were up to safety standards and L’Aquila passed each and every test...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman | Title: Berlusconi’s Hubris | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...referring to Tony Judt’s “Fictions on the Ground,” in which Judt, the director of NYU’s Remarque Institute for European Studies, condemns Israel’s continued construction of settlements in the Palestinian territories. He even urges President Barack H. Obama to “remind Israelis that all their settlements are hostage to American goodwill.” Some have labeled Judt’s piece, perhaps appropriately, as anti-Zionist: yet another media big-name railing against the State of Israel. But given the tone Obama...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: An End in Sight? | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Barack Obama urged an audience of physicians to get on board with bundled, per-episode care. "You entered this profession to be healers," he said. "Now, that starts with reforming the way we compensate our providers - doctors and hospitals. We need to bundle payments so you aren't paid for every single treatment you offer a patient with a chronic condition like diabetes, but instead paid well for how you treat the overall disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Health-Care Costs by Putting Doctors on a Budget | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...vice-presidential candidacy remolded Palin in the eyes of Alaskan Democrats from a moderate willing to reach out across the aisle to a bomb thrower who accused Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists." As she became more partisan, she lost support in Alaska - her favorable poll numbers are now in the mid-50s, down from the 80s before she was tapped for VP. Without the Democrats, her agenda has gone nowhere, and she's now attacked from both the left and the right. "I saw her on the elevator in the beginning of session in January," Crawford says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Sarah Palin Quit: The Five Best Explanations | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...December, the start of a dreary Russian winter, and Barack Obama's face was staring down at pedestrians walking along Moscow's gray streets. But the photograph of the U.S. President wearing a black suit and a smile had nothing to do with his election win a month earlier. It was part of an ad for a chain of tanning salons called Sun People, which was using Obama's picture to promote the benefits of booking some time on their sun beds. In March, the President's image appeared in another new ad campaign: this time for ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, Russia and the Question of Color | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

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