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Newt Gingrich confesses his serial marital sins to Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and wins absolution; Mitt Romney admits the error of his earlier tolerance of abortion rights. John Edwards seldom misses a chance to repent of his vote for the war, to highlight Hillary Clinton's refusal to do likewise. As for paying for past mistakes, Barack Obama took care of $400 worth of parking tickets left over from his law-school days--two weeks before he announced his candidacy...
...very few of the very rich have some awareness of the emptiness--if not the medieval corruption--of ransoming one's sins. Sergey Brin, zillionaire founder of Google, buys carbon credits to offset the ghastly amount of carbon dioxide emitted by Google's private Boeing 767 but confesses he's not sure if it really does anything...
...media giant Viacom--whose founder, Sumner Redstone, is credited with coining the phrase "Content is king"--has taken a different tack. Viacom's Daily Show and Colbert Report generated a steady stream of popular clips on YouTube. In February the company demanded that YouTube remove the videos, and this month it sued Google for $1 billion. Viacom also signed a deal to distribute shows via YouTube competitor Joost...
...essay "The American Century," TIME co-founder Henry Luce wrote that Americans "are faced with great decisions." As a nation and as a people, we are once again faced with consequential decisions. From the war in Iraq to the most wide-open presidential race in generations to how we educate our children for the 21st century, we will make decisions in the next few years that will affect all of us for many years to come. TIME's job is to outline the choices ahead and help you make those decisions. We do that every week in print and every...
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.org, is a self-proclaimed ?anticredentialist? and in six years has revolutionized the way we share-and generate-information online. Wikipedia, now in 250 languages, rides on the idea that truth rises to the top of user-generated content. though a recent scandal proves that's not always the case...