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...repeat the same sequence of events over and over again. At the end of each loop, the Enterprise is destroyed in a catastrophic collision with another ship, and they go back to the beginning. But with a subtle difference: each time they go through the loop, it leaves behind dark trace memories, so the next time around, the crew is haunted by a sense that something terrible is happening, but they can't quite put their finger on what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Back to the Final Frontier | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...hailed in the 1970s for a string of comedies that, thanks to their abundant laughs and popularity in London's West End, got him dubbed the "British Neil Simon." That wildly inaccurate moniker stuck, even as Ayckbourn's early comedies, like Absurd Person Singular, gave way to increasingly dark and adventurous work - plays that were no longer surefire hits in London and in most cases never even got produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Ayckbourn: Man of the Moment | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

Citigroup (C), Goldman Sachs (GS), and Wells Fargo (WFC) had better-than-expected earnings. The banking sector was supposed to spend the balance of this decade feeling around in the dark and finding nothing but more bad assets and little revenue from what had been an investment banking goldmine fueled by quarters of good M&A and corporate finance results. Citi's numbers beat forecasts but revisionists began to take apart the earnings after the fact. An analyst from Goldman Sachs wrote that the big bank's credit losses are growing at a "rapid rate," meaning the shares remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Stole the Recovery? | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...justice by the Bush administration, issuing an executive order banning torture and releasing three previously classified memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel—a group of lawyers who provide binding legal advice to the executive branch. However, in order to truly close the book on the dark days of America’s endorsement of torture, Obama should go further and see that those who committed torture are held accountable for their actions...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Renouncing Torture | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...show, and to truly gauge the long-term psychological impact of torture, psychologists need to follow up with victims well after they are released. That may never happen with detainees like Zubaydah and Mohammed-meaning we may never know the final wages of what CIA agents did in dark rooms under our name. But there should be no doubt now that we tortured. "That we would still be having a discussion about whether or not waterboarding is torture is so disingenuous," says Keller. "They should come out and say what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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