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...callous and obscene scandal of honoring dead Nazis." Dressed in black, 41 women who had survived the death camps marched silently to the stage and lighted six banks of candles. At a similar observance in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said, "Reconciliation in the present is fine between British and Germans, French and Italians, Americans and Japanese. But in reconciling the past, with its evil and with Satan, there is no room for salving the conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: A Misbegotten Trip Opens Old Wounds | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...always been true of political leaders, as with generals, that their greatest strengths can in a twinkling become their greatest weaknesses. There is a fine line between boldness and recklessness, between perseverance and pigheadedness. Knowing just how much further he can push the Reagan revolution before risking the gains he has made is the greatest challenge before the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Drawing a Bead on Reagan | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...spends much time in the vast third of Canada that few Canadians ever visit: the huge, deserted Northwest Territories, an area larger than India that supports fewer people than can fit comfortably into Yankee Stadium. Everywhere, he finds an ingenious effort to utilize geography for profit. He has a fine appreciation for the weight of that harsh immensity on the Canadian psyche, so different from the buoyancy imparted to Americans by their frontier. Along the southern strip, where most Canadians live, Malcolm discovers a culture of impressive accomplishment. He cites litanies of artistic, theatrical and literary figures but notices that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Different?THE CANADIANS | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...best results, set picture quality to fine and resolution to the highest pixel count. Tell subjects to keep still, and hold your hand steady even after you press the capture button. There's usually a slight delay before the image registers on the device, so any movement could blur the shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: Snap Happy | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

Dangling Man and The Victim, the strange allegorical novel that followed, were fine apprentice novels. But it wasn't until Augie, his big and vigorous coming-of-age novel, that Bellow discovered his voice, a voice so distinctive that it would earn its own adjective: Bellovian. It combined the rhetoric of a precocious University of Chicago student with the exuberant syncopations of Chicago street talk--high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saul Bellow: 1915-2005: Part Wise Man, Part Wiseguy | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

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