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After leaving Detroit and coaching the Dream Team to gold in Barcelona, Daly landed in New Jersey to coach the woeful Nets in 1992. He always deserved more credit for his brief stint in the Meadowlands swamp. Daly turned the Nets into legitimate Eastern Conference title contenders until John Starks of the New York Knicks broke the wrist of Nets point guard Kenny Anderson during the 1993 season. Then the team's scoring machine, Croatian shooting guard Drazen Petrovic, died in a car accident that summer. Daly left the Nets in 1994, and coached the Orlando Magic for two seasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball Legend Chuck Daly (1930-2009) | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

Taken on face value, however, Benedict's brief remarks were eloquent, a kind of prayerful meditation about how the names of those murdered renders them nonetheless inextinguishable from the eternal book of human history. "They lost their lives but they will never lose their names," the Pope said, speaking in his softly accented English. "These are indelibly etched in the hearts of their loved ones, their surviving fellow prisoners, and all those determined never to allow such an atrocity to disgrace mankind again." The Pope clearly grasps the scope and horror of the Holocaust. He added this chilling contemplation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope's Silence Rings Loudly at Holocaust Memorial | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...Awareness Day and declared herself committed to discouraging behavior that would leave other girls in the same predicament she finds herself in. "Regardless of what I did personally," she told Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America, "abstinence is the only ... 100% foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy." (Read: A Brief History of Abstinence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Bristol Palin, Abstinence Spokeswoman | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...brief skim of MenSpeakUp’s website betrays this sort of haphazard agenda. “Because not being a rapist is not enough,” writes one member. In a video, another encourages his fellow males to speak out against rape jokes. (Is this the sort of innovative thinking that makes the Harvard man?) But where the site is not merely bland, it is alarmist and misleading. The site provides little in the way of actual rape statistics, except for reporting that, “by most estimates, between one in three to one in five women...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Talk We Don’t Need | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...Brief History of Hunger Strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imprisoned Journalist Roxana Saberi | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

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