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...going to be Bush's turn. He has alienated virtually all our allies and enraged fully half of the voters. Who is on his side? Radical conservatives and Evangelicals--not a lot of company when most of the world is against you. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seat belt, Mr. President; it's going to be a bumpy four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 2004 | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...budget gets, the more creative we get." The latest budget draft hikes the sales tax from 8.75% to 9%, the highest among big U.S. cities. And Daley has backed an idea to fine people caught with small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them--proof once again that during belt-tightening season, politicians will leave no stone (or stoner) unturned. --By Noah Isackson

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creative Thinking In Chicago | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Katie's brother Tyler, 6, is more at ease with all this. He obligingly pulls on the robe, cord belt and headdress worn by dozens of predecessor shepherds over years of Christmas pageants here at the First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights, Ill. "Now, what do shepherds do?" asks pageant director Phyllis Green. "They protect their sheep," he says promptly. His older brother Drew, who at 8 has two years more of this particular story under his shepherd's belt, chimes in, "And the angels come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind The First Noel | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Hopelessness, however, should not be the mark of the sane that remain free. Interventions can be staged with iPodded friends before the headphones become soldered to their ears, or worse, they purchase those oh so hip belt clip accessories. These are tough but doable if one capitalizes on the small windows of time just prior to bedtime and after awakening when the afflicted are conscious and the evil little white machines should be recharging...

Author: By John Hastrup, JOHN W. HASTRUP | Title: iPretend You Don't Exist | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

Brandishing an ultraviolet belt, a chain-knife and a shotgun with an under-mounted stake launcher, Blade vanquishes his foes with a moral absolutism absent from men at Harvard who enjoy “irony” and “satire.” If more men were like Blade then our collective feminine lives would be infinitely superior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Review | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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