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...writers in Best European seem a more adventurous bunch than their American counterparts. They experiment freely with structure and venture more often down the path of metafiction, debating the direction of a story even as their characters are entangled in it. ("The Basilica in Lyon," by Serbian writer David Albahari, is a mesmerizing dream chase along those lines.) Hemon says this is a reflection partly of his own editorial taste but also of the European publishing environment, which doesn't follow the American blockbuster model. "There's a lot of American fiction on the fringes that is very daring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Europe with Love | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

Klein: I talked to a bunch a folks - friends, my kids - what should I ask the President? It was almost unanimous: the thing that people remarked on is just how crazy things are. How difficult it is. Focused on the health care process - what have you learned from that process, what's your takeaway? How is it going to influence the rest of your presidency? Obama: Look, even if we hadn't tackled health care, this year was going to be a tough year. During the transition period last year, it became apparent very quickly that we were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Obama on His First Year in Office | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...victories that [Secretary of Defense Robert] Gates helped win are ones that this town completely discounted when we started. We are scrubbing the budget once again to make sure that every program that we're funding actually has some justification - it actually works. Yesterday we had a whole bunch of CEOs and innovators here to talk about modernization of government. The infrastructure bank falls in that broader category of, How do we make these dollars work better? Because we're going to have to make some very difficult spending decisions moving forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Obama on His First Year in Office | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...outside the ancient mosques are wondering what fighting between al-Qaeda and the government would look like. Would it be like the conflict in the north, where extremist insurgents occupy villages with gunfire and government bombs rain down from the sky? Is al-Qaeda an army or just a bunch of ill-equipped gangs? "All citizens are scared," says Jamal al-Najjar, an English-language translator, while waiting for a group of foreign journalists at the airport. The visible influx of overseas media, hungry for stories, adds to the sense of crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Yemen's Capital, Fearful Talk of War with al-Qaeda | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...there no ugly people reading the nightly news? - David Keyes, Sandpoint, Idaho I have some buddies in New Jersey who would argue that there's a big ugly one anchoring NBC Nightly News. There are a whole bunch of us on television who look normal. Has there been traditionally a fiendish double standard for men and women on television? Yes. It's not right. Especially with the advent of high-definition television, it's a cruel, cruel medium. (See the top 10 news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Brian Williams | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

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