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...After originally being scheduled to appear at the Staples memorial, Deborah Rowe, the mother of two of Jackson's children, said in a statement that she had changed her mind and would be absent since she felt her appearance would be "an unnecessary distraction." Another Jackson fixture - longtime friend Dame Elizabeth Taylor - took to her Twitter page on Monday to announce a similar sentiment. "I cannot be part of the public whoopla," Taylor said. "I just don't believe Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others. How I feel is between us. Not a public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A. Gears Up for Star-Studded Michael Jackson Memorial | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...uncanny ability to win people over stemmed from a genuine kindness fondly recalled by his close friends. His mother remembers Forst writing a letter to Notre Dame after having been accepted, begging the school to give his spot to a good friend who had been rejected. (“I don’t think he ever got a response,” she adds...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Mahoney said he will be interested to see how President Obama handles the attack; on numerous occasions, including at a recent speech at Notre Dame, the President has stressed the importance of finding common ground on the issue by focusing on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies. After Gunn's 1994 murder at the hands of Michael Griffin, then President Clinton "spent millions on investigations. It had a real chilling effect on pro-life groups." Financial contributions went down and churches became skittish about hosting pro-life speakers, Mahoney said. "If you demonize the messenger you undermine the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiller's Murder: How Will It Impact the Abortion Fight? | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

Next, the alliance tried the South Bend, Ind., system, which had accepted ads from various religious groups and so had little choice but to take the atheists' ads. While no protests attended the acceptance, South Bend, home to the University of Notre Dame, now has a moratorium on new noncommercial ads, until a formal policy is written. Now appearing on South Bend's buses: "You can be good without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is God Dead? Or Just Not Riding the Bus? | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...years. You might have expected her to open a restaurant in Paris on the strength of it (her base is Valence, in southwest France), but as with her cooking, she likes to confound expectations. For her next move, Pic has taken over the dining room at the grande-dame Beau-Rivage Palace hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland. The reconfigured space is as pared down and elegant as her cooking, even echoing its play on layering, textures and translucency with floating suede panels on the walls. "Quite simply there was a meeting of minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taste of France on Lake Geneva | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

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