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...White House had been preparing for the launch for days. Within 90 minutes, a statement condemning the actions was released. A few hours later, Gibbs was briefing reporters, saying that Obama had already spoken with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already been dispatched to arrange an afternoon Security Council meeting to condemn the action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's New Tone Meets Familiar Tough Challenges | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...deterioration of a human body without nourishment. McQueen documents the constant attention given to Sands by the hospital doctors as he refuses all food and gradually surrenders his body. McQueen, much like Sands, has a single and purposeful intention from which he never strays. Refusing to either condemn or glorify the IRA, the director focuses solely on the physicality of the prisoners’ grim undertaking. In this approach, “Hunger” bravely reveals the visceral underbelly of a well-known event in English and Irish history. McQueen illustrates with profound artistry the eerie quiet...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hunger | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...irony of the nostalgia for TV's "golden age" is that it romanticizes the very things people used to condemn. Mass media were once homogenizing; now we miss how they unified us. Culture critics once said TV appealed to the lowest common denominator; now cable's ambitious niche shows cater to litists. Some even romanticize commercials - commercials! - as making TV for the masses possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's to the Death of Broadcast | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...Under the charade that we ourselves are a secular democracy, we condemn groups that adhere to a brand of democracy that—like ours—is not quite “secular.” And, in order to prevent religious parties from coming to power, we enable far greater evils, such as sustaining dictators like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. The result is that we fail both to suppress religious groups and to promote democracy; religious groups merely become more popular, and Mubarak tightens his restrictions on freedoms. Yet our narrow mindset leads us to continue...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: In God We Trust | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...after Saturday's murders in Antrim, Sinn Fein may be forced to eat their words. During the Troubles, the party normally refused to condemn the murder of security force personnel, but in today's post-conflict Northern Ireland, the rules of the game have changed. The party's president Gerry Adams described the attacks as "wrong and counter-productive." "[The perpetrators] want to destroy the progress of recent times and to plunge Ireland back into conflict", he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Returns to Northern Ireland | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

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