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...traders as the world's matchmakers. "We're the search engines to find the best place in the world" to buy a product, says Bruce Rockowitz, president of Li & Fung's sourcing business. Let's say you're an executive at a major U.S. fashion retailer looking to fill its racks with a spring collection. Stop by the offices of Li & Fung in Hong Kong's Kowloon district and its staff will track down the best fabrics, buttons and other components at the best prices and hire the right manufacturers to sew the clothes together. With 72 sourcing offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Center of the World | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...desert and create their own country. The Kurds, for their part, already have their own country. It's just a matter of building a wall around it and grabbing Kirkuk's oil fields. The number of Iraqis who still believe Humpty Dumpty can be put back together couldn't fill a conference room at the American Enterprise Institute, one of the brains behind the surge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell the Truth About the Surge | 1/17/2007 | See Source »

...keeps fighting, of course (he has 24 episodes to fill), but for people, not politics. 24's ideology--Jack Bauerism, if you will--is not so much in between left and right as it is outside them, impatient with both A.C.L.U. niceties and Bushian moral absolutes. This season, Bauer allies with Hamri al-Assad, a (putatively) reformed terrorist leader, to stop an attack. He thus displays a better grasp of realpolitik than has the Bush Administration, which resisted the Iraq Study Group's recommendation to work with Iran and Syria. A fellow agent asks Bauer if it matters that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of Jack Bauer | 1/14/2007 | See Source »

...philosophy. The $100 RAWvolution delivery that was supposed to last five days was half gone by the end of the first. I resorted to carrying around a lot of nuts, apples and bananas in my car for the three days I lasted on the diet. They didn't fill me up--or make my car smell good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Adventures in the Raw | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

...Today, the institute receives about 800 applications from around the world to fill 45 to 50 fellowship spots annually, according to Grosz...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deft Historian May Be Harvard's Future | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

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