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...July 1990, When George H.W. Bush nominated Souter to fill the seat of William J. Brennan, one of the most resolute members of the court's dwindling liberal minority, Bush thought, or at least hoped, that he would be getting a consistently right-leaning justice. What he got instead was a man who helped produce the 5-4 majority that upheld Roe v. Wade in 1992, who frequently ruled in favor of the rights of the accused in criminal cases, who supported gay rights and opposed school prayer. As a nominee Souter had the strong support of Bush's White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evaluating Souter: A Strange Judicial Trip, Leaning Left | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...hold rallies and appear on television, even as they banned the PLO. So if Hamas, in Israel's view, was moderate once, could it moderate itself again? The group's founding charter - which brims with anti-Semitism and rules out conceding any historically Palestinian land - doesn't exactly fill one with hope. On the other hand, Hamas' leader in Damascus, Khaled Mashaal, declared a couple of years ago, "I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas: U.S. Diplomacy's Final Frontier | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...serves up creations such as beetroot raviole of seasoned crab splashed with truffle oil. Meanwhile, at Racines wine bar, www.morethanorganic.com, owner Pierre Jancou is among the few privileged chefs to get their produce from the garden of none other than Passard, www.alain-passard.com, who created the 10-acre (4 hectare) Fillé-sur-Sarthe plot in 2002 to realize his ambitions for l'Arpège, and grow the types of extraordinary vegetables that today are changing the vocabulary of contemporary French cuisine. "We're still at the beginning," says Passard. "We've only exploited 10% of a carrot's potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat Your Greens in Paris | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...with all that stuff that only hot chicks do?Timothy McCarthy: A lot of solid work lately. Keep it up, and one day you’ll get an abstract in THURJ.Glenda Carpio: This scholar in the Af-Am and English Department has been working round the clock to fill in her Venn diagram of commonalities between Meg Ryan, Karl Malone, and Vinnie Chiappini. Hint, Glenda: It’s an affinity for John Stockton! Sound fundamentals AND short shorts? Who wouldn’t want to ‘pick and roll’ with him? [3]Xiaofei Tian...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Hotshots? More Like Waterboys | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...little more than a month, Harvard will graduate yet another class of seniors and commend them to prestigious positions in regions far-flung across the globe. Even with the economic downturn, no doubt this class—like all before it—will eventually fill the highest echelons in government, finance, law, and academia...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: That Nameless Virtue | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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