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...card reform. On Feb. 7, Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Barney Frank introduced a credit-card bill of rights that would make it harder for issuers to add fees and hike rates. Senator Carl Levin is also sponsoring a bill that would cap rate increases, rein in fees and require clearer disclosures of all costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exposing the Credit-Card Fine Print | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...murder of Frederigo and Enrique Salinas.As in his earlier work, Kertész exhibits an understanding of how a distorted and cruel logic arises out of the inhumane. In “Fatelessness,” the young protagonist Gyuri is nostalgic for the “clearer and simpler” life in the concentration camps. In “Detective Story,” the cold and matter-of-fact style in which Kertész relates the sequence of events that lead up to the Salinas’ execution chills the reader to the point where...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kertész Sleuths Human Cruelty | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...corporations that induces much of the current system’s quality and accessibility issues. But it started to come together once I realized that Clinton receives more funding from insurance and pharmaceutical companies than anybody other politician—Republican or Democrat. Indeed, as the reality became clearer to me, a very different Hillary emerged than the one Americans saw crying in New Hampshire recently because she cared so much about...

Author: By Sahand Moarefy | Title: A Liberal’s Case Against Clinton | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

...different ways we have been thinking and talking out loud since taking third in New Hampshire," Trippi said. "Every day we were looking for ways to break out against these two candidates ... It became clearer and clearer after South Carolina on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the press was really focused on Clinton and Obama that it was going to be tougher and tougher for us to break through. And contrary to what staff or pundits may say - the idea of playing the political game of kingmaker or spoiler never really appealed to him. In his mind it was a clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Edwards Never Caught On | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months." That's the semiofficial definition of a recession, courtesy of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private think tank that since 1929 has determined the start and end dates of U.S. downturns. A clearer but clunkier standard is two straight quarters of declining gross domestic product. Or there's Harry Truman's classic definition: "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rites of Recession | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

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