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Most mornings Thelma Salazar, 70, meets her friends at the Cesar E. Chavez Community Center nestled in a garden next to the I-71 freeway less than a mile from Long Beach's busy industrial ports. Whether playing cards or eating meals, they rarely discuss politics. But on the few occasions that they do, most of the group of Latina retirees murmur their support of Hillary Clinton, though many like that "young boy, what's his name? Barack Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for the Latino Vote | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

...bank - his "superiors," in other words - had nary a clue, because young Nick had for a time devised a way to hide his trades from them. More than $1 billion in the hole, and with no hope of digging his way out, he skipped off to a Malaysia beach resort with his wife to sip umbrella drinks for a few days before their world caved in. A week later Britain's oldest merchant bank, which had helped finance the Napoleonic wars and the Louisiana Purchase, was done. Leeson was sentenced to 6 1/2 years - though he served just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masters of Mayhem | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...feel about President Bush throwing his weight around in the Middle East? -Roham Rashtchy West Palm Beach, Fla.It has been a disaster. There is a huge disconnect between the real war and the politicized war. I wish that our representatives had more experience with the real war. If any of the men who were eager to get into this war had actually been in one, they would have found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Susan Sarandon | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...Virginia Beach, Va. and Mather House...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Harvard Crimson proudly announces the members of its 135th Executive Board | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

Even if undergraduates choose the beach over their books for the mini-term, an optional seminar program is misguided. Resources from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ already-stretched budget could certainly be better directed elsewhere than to an undersubscribed quasi-academic program. And given how slow and painful the development of the General Education curriculum has been, it hardly makes sense to ask the Faculty to simultaneously create yet another set of new classes...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg and Melissa Quino mccreery | Title: Give Me A Break | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

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