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...accommodate it to the appetites of postwar America, an abundant, full-of-itself nation. The country's corporate and institutional élites were open to the idea of seeing their power expressed in a contemporary idiom, with none of the grand and intricate ornament of earlier generations. Yet the bare-bones Modernism that came of age in Europe between the wars was not quite what they were looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eero Dynamic | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Estimates of the January earthquake’s death toll place the figure around 200,000, though the final number may be even higher. But Baptiste said Friday that the consequences of the earthquake reverberate beyond the bare statistics and the country’s borders...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Haiti Crisis | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...Gaza's economy began with Hamas' election victory in 2006, and became a full blockade after the movement's militias ejected security forces loyal to Fatah, whom they accused of plotting a coup. The Israelis hope that if they choke off the inflow of even basic goods to a bare minimum, the population will turn on Hamas. Israel has also presented most construction materials from entering the territory, which has prevented the reconstruction of thousands of homes and other structures damaged by last year's Israeli offensive aimed at stopping Hamas rocket fire. Egypt, which controls the only Gaza border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Siege of Gaza, Egypt Walks a Delicate Line | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...Untalan's village, Gitam, is home to about two dozen families and has enough enlisted residents to field its own baseball team. Several of them belong to Mark Mathow, a retired fisherman. On a recent balmy day, he sits bare-chested on his porch, recounting how his family became involved with the U.S. military. His brother Steven, a U.S. Army staff sergeant with 16 years in the service, was killed when an IED hit his unit's Humvee outside the Iraqi city of Bayji in 2005. One daughter just got out of the Army after eight years of service, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Micronesian Paradise — for U.S. Military Recruiters | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

...engage in a little navel-gazing while summoning the glories of Italian cinema in the Cinecitta era of the 1960s. Find a role for Sophia Loren! Cast Kidman as an amalgam of Claudia Cardinale and Anita Ekberg! And, just as anachronistic, have people sing their troubles, on a single bare stage. (See a photographic tribute to Sophia Loren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine: Not a 10 and Certainly Not an 8-1/2 | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

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