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The increase of Russian influence in Cuba reached a new grade in mid-December when three Russian warships sailed into Havana’s harbor. This is the first time that the Russian navy has visited Cuba since the end of the Soviet era and represents a clear effort by...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Phaneuf | Title: A More Perfect Neighborhood | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

Updike's hallmark was his glittering, gloriously vivid style. His talent for spotting detail, for capturing in prose the slightest shift in light or in a character's mood was unmatched. It was not the most fashionable of gifts. While his contemporaries practiced the rock-ribbed realism of Hemingway and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike, Literary Heavyweight | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

There are, of course, a number of reasons to object to sharing the cost of new employees at private enterprises. The system is subject to fraud. That is accurate, but if the IRS monitors the wages of the people being hired at least the government would have a reasonably accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Jobs Trumps Building Bridges | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

For decades, the primary approach to rehabilitation in the U.S. has been 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Twelve-step doctrine defines addiction in a contradictory way: as a medical problem, like a lifelong illness, with a spiritual solution (surrendering to a higher power). The model has become so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Addiction: Are 12 Steps Too Many? | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

Obviously, magazine editors are more fun to talk about than the people who sell chicken parts. First, they dress better. Second, while the sexiest figure poultry purveyors bring to mind is Colonel Sanders, magazine editors are embodied on screen (see Annette Bening, Candice Bergen, Vanessa Williams and, in the upcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wintour of Discontent: Those Vogue Editor Rumors | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

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