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Once Bitten While Germany has learned the lessons of creative destruction the hard way, the government still believes it has a critical role to play in industry. Just this month, the fate of Opel, the German subsidiary of General Motors, has been at the top of the political agenda. Government ministers are refusing to loan the billions the carmaker says it needs to survive - and even imposing conditions on would-be buyers, which include Fiat. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Germany Got for Its $2 Trillion | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Weird Witchcraft Antichrist begins in domestic rapture. In pristine black-and-white images rendered in slo-mo, and to a soprano's lofty rendition of Handel's Lascia ch'io pianga ("Leave me to weep over my cruel fate"), a couple makes love on a snowy evening. In another room the washing machine churns. In a third, the couple's son Nic escapes his crib to, and goes to a window ledge where he teeters, then falls to his death. The sex act, Nic's life and the wash conclude simultaneously. The child's last moment has a beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antichrist: Von Trier's Porno Horror Rhapsody | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...current cuts, the lack of late-night transportation limits Quad students’ ability to hold late -night jobs or participate in many extra-curricular activities. Religious students will now be offered no transport for the journey to services on weekend mornings, and no one would envy the fate of a Quadded athlete, forced to rise before the sun in order to travel to practice by foot on university holidays...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill and James K. Mcauley | Title: Separate but Unequal | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...mirror to our own domesticated lives. Collins explores the history of TV cooking from its beginnings as a way to promote rationing-friendly recipes during World War II to its current renaissance with reality-show hybrids like Top Chef. The genre, she writes, has enjoyed a "triumphant fate" - thanks to its ability to seamlessly keep up with evolving cultural and culinary tastes. (See why food auctions are booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of TV Cooking | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...Holocaust: "I can only imagine the joyful expectation of their parents as they anxiously awaited the birth of their children. What name shall we give this child? What is to become of him or her? Who could have imagined that they would be condemned to such a deplorable fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope's Silence Rings Loudly at Holocaust Memorial | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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