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...imperial ambitions - these are challenges that would daunt any politician. A keen runner and cyclist, Rasmussen has been known to invite Facebook friends (he has 34,636 of them) to exercise with him. He has remade his Facebook page in English, and says he wants to use it to give NATO a human face. There's nothing wrong with that. But his new job requires him to do a lot more than be friendly and accessible. To make sure NATO survives another 60 years, Rasmussen will have to get tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO's Reformer: Anders Fogh Rasmussen | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...Give Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), points for speed. Within hours of the DPJ's historic general-election victory on Aug. 30, Hatoyama was conferencing by phone with the leaders of South Korea and Australia, meeting with journalists and otherwise behaving as Japan's next Prime Minister - which he certainly will become in just a few weeks. "We have finally reached the starting line," Hatoyama told reporters on Aug. 31, leaving little doubt that he was eager to get on with governing. (Read "Japan's Election: Opposition Wins Historic Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sea Change in Japanese Politics | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...Having read your article while at the gym, I have to say I felt disheartened. While I enjoy exercise and understand its benefits, I can imagine anyone who finds it tedious and exercises purely for weight loss or maintenance would have found in that article a strong incentive to give up. Who knows what health problems they could have prevented by continuing to exercise? Caitriona McPartlin, Dublin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Deena Katz, longtime casting director of ABC's reality hit Dancing with the Stars (DWTS), is used to rejection. For most big names, reality TV has all the cachet of a rest-stop Wendy's. But Katz doesn't give up easily. She has been wooing one of the upcoming season's contestants, Kelly Osbourne, since early in the show's history. Another, Chuck Liddell of the Ultimate Fighting Championship league, was first scouted when he showed up to watch singer Willa Ford in Season 3. When Katz reached out to former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay via his book agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dancing with the Stars: The Tom DeLay Edition | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Tired of being nagged? Tough, says the author: "This isn't about what you want to do. It's about what you need to do to achieve the best results possible." Jones' shrewd book will give the nervously employed that requisite competitive career edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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