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Military officers - especially those who tend to talk privately to reporters, knowing that their views will seep into news coverage - say Obama wins points for the national-security team he has tapped. His National Security Adviser will be retired Marine General James Jones, who thereby becomes the new President's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Wooing the Military | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

Although U.S. college enrollment has climbed, college completion rates have not. Only a third of students who enroll in community colleges - which educate nearly half the undergraduates in the U.S. - get a degree within six years. Hence the interest in this study among such philanthropic powerhouses as the Bill & Melinda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid for Good Grades? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

Given that the follow-up study of the program was disrupted as the schools struggled to rebuild enrollment and facilities in the wake of Katrina, it's difficult to draw any long-term conclusions about the effects that cash incentives will have on community-college students. However, there could soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid for Good Grades? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

Working from a small, spartan office at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for another week, Jones knows he doesn't have the luxury of moving slowly. Obama will look to Jones to deliver his promised withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq in 18 months, oversee an intensification of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's National Security Point Man | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

Which is terrific, because, well, who can replace this guy? You've got to wonder whether Jobs is a creature loftier, more meaningful than just another corporate big cheese. CEOs come and go, after all, and some of them are every bit as megalomaniacally brilliant--think of Henry Ford, Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Apple Survive Without Jobs? | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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