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In the home theater world, the term used to describe the aesthetic appeal of a system is the "spousal acceptance factor." That is to say, if you pull into the driveway with a particular piece of electronics, would your spouse deny or grant you entry into the house? Thanks to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yamaha YSP-800 Digital Sound Projector | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

The gays-in-the-priesthood saga was not the first troublesome episode of poorly managed information flows from the Curia since Benedict took over. Most notably, a leaked version of the Vatican's reaction to the July 7 terror attacks in London erroneously included the Pope using the highly charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Papal PR Problem? | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

As Adomanis rightly states, “[A] lessening of France’s now-infamous racism would probably do a lot to help,” but this sentence unfortunately follows his praise of Le Pen’s “wisdom.” No one has...

Author: By Virginie Greene and Alice A. Jardine | Title: France’s Riots Were Not Merely Due To Cultural Heterogeneity | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

Finally, to describe French society as “a society formerly of one cultural, linguistic, and ethnic mode” is to take the utopian aspiration of the Jacobin revolutionaries for an eternal truth. In 1790, Father Henri Gregoire pointed out that most French citizens did not speak French...

Author: By Virginie Greene and Alice A. Jardine | Title: France’s Riots Were Not Merely Due To Cultural Heterogeneity | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

Kitti Manoonphol, the dashing 31-year-old Thai jewelry designer whose outrageous creations appear on the necks and wrists of Thai princesses and reigning beauty queens (Miss Thailand and Miss World among them), is setting his sights on the wider world. And his latest collection (which can be viewed at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funk from Junk | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

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