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...While their individual politics are all a bit different, each was part of a team that passed the 1990 Clean Air bill, a landmark disablity rights measure and the negotiation of NAFTA - exactly the kind of solid accomplishments 41's son would need to close out a lackluster second term with some grace. Many conservatives uttered silent screams when some of those measures passed in the early 1990s, but I'm guessing now the Republicans are too desperate for change to fuss much now. And already there is talk - and some evidence - that Bolten is reaching out to other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Goes Back to the Future | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

Presenting a combination of classical and contemporary pieces, the Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) gave a clean and dynamic performance that only improved as their spring show, “Pointe/Counterpointe,” progressed towards its impressive final piece. Produced by Valentine N. Quadrat ’09, and co-directed by Raymond W. Keller III ’08 and Sarah C. Kenney ’08, HBC took the stage this past Saturday in Lowell Lecture Hall. The evening had an unpromising beginning—the first two numbers were indubitably the worst of the entire performance...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Pointe/Counterpointe’ Impresses in Second Half | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...assistants are the female domestic crews that serve meals, do laundry and clean at Opus Dei facilities. "It's like working at a hotel," says Lucy, except that the job requires daily prayer, daily penance and lifelong celibacy. The work meant 12-hour days, six or seven days a week at Opus Dei centers from San Francisco to Boston, and Lucy says her minimum-wage salary was turned over to the organization. She found the stringent regulation of her life incredibly grueling. "You had to ask permission to do everything," she recalls. "If you wanted to go out with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lucy: Broken by the Demands | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...fictional protagonists in Mario Puzo's saga The Godfather. Provenzano had run the enormous La Cosa Nostra crime organization by way of messages on slips of paper, called pizzini, smuggled out from his hiding places over the years. But Cortese finally found him by following peripatetic packages of clean laundry from the home of Provenzano's wife in Corleone. Each delivery of clothing went from way station to way station until it finally reached a farmhouse. At around 10 a.m. on April 11, Cortese, belly down in the brush on a hilltop less than a mile away, stared through high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Tractor Was Mowed Down | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

Rumsfeld was among the first to grasp what others would take months to understand: that threats to America overseas were no longer deterred by tanks, bombers and aircraft carriers. However clean his logic, getting the generals to give up their gadgets was turning out to be much dirtier work. "This is a very large organization," says General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, "and as with any ship, there's a lot of inertia that won't allow you to turn it 10 degrees. You need energetic people to make that happen." But one man was no match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pentagon Warlord | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

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