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At the end of the 1972 film The Candidate, the Robert Redford character asks his campaign manager, "What do we do now?" The implication is that the Senate race winner is weary, disillusioned and in no state to make the transition from rhetoric to reality. John Key has had no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading Up | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

How do you think being raised by a single mother in a home with your two sisters has shaped your character? I've got a softer side to me. Look, you don't miss what you don't have. I like people. My strongest point on the campaign trail was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading Up | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

On the other hand ... well, just look at them, on every channel and newsstand. And consider the context. This year the networks announced a schedule of new fall series without a single black lead character. Now America's biggest television show--a family comedy, a West Wing--style drama and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Fall Ratings Hit: Meet the Obamas | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Not bad for a show whose luck stalled just a few years back. In 2001, 24 years after it was launched, Top Gear ran out of gas. Its restart the following year owes much to Wilman and Clarkson, who quit the show in 1999 after just over a decade fronting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Gear's Road to Riches | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

Context In the early 2000s, Harvard professors become advisors to President Bush. Eight years later, Harvard professors have a panel and say Bush’s economic policy messed everything up. Cake is served. Plot Overview A stressed, yet hopeful narrator named “Drew” relates the...

Author: By Benjamin K. Glaser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: President Faust’s “Harvard and the economy” E-mail - SparkNotes Style | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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