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...reach the Delacorte, and no one's in line. What luck! "Good Morning," I say to a NYPD officer. "Line starts on Central Park West," he says. He's so not going to let us cut...

Author: By Emily C. Graff | Title: The Summer of our Discontent | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...processes in courts, surgeries and schools, but are an affront to the republic itself and its traditions of secularism. In 2004, France banned head scarves from schools and public buildings. "In our country," said Sarkozy on June 22, "we cannot accept that women are prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of an identity ... This is not the French republic's idea of dignity ... When we meet women who wear it, we try to educate them, and explain to them that moderation is a better choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Women's Head Coverings | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...Vladimir Putin vowed to restore his country's great power status. Talk about a partnership with the West gave way to belligerent statements about a new Cold War. In the summer of 2008, Russian tanks trundled into Georgia. In early 2009, a dispute with neighboring Ukraine led Russia to cut off gas flows, leaving people in some European Union countries freezing and factories idle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe and Russia's Continental Rift | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...want to change history. We want to add to it.' JOSEPH ALMEIDA, a Rhode Island state representative, on a referendum to cut the second part of the state's official name--Rhode Island and Providence Plantations--which calls to mind the colony's role in the slave trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...this skill--along with verbal agility, stamina and likability--that he used to get consumers to buy products they never knew they needed. He carried the torch for vintage pitchmen, and I had hoped that he would continue to do so for a new generation. But his pitch was cut short far too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billy Mays | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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