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...play, in its understated way, is just as impressive. Huff has done two hard things. He has taken very familiar subject matter - the morally ambiguous life of cops working the mean streets - and made it seem fresh, authentic, brutally uncompromising yet not sensationalized. And he has done it using a device - actors talking directly to the audience - that is too often the resort of lazy playwrights who don't have the patience to write a fully fleshed-out play. (Read "Who'll Win the Tonys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackman and Craig: Chicago Cops, Broadway Stars | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

Nonetheless, I can't say I entirely get the point of Via as a product. I'm hard up thinking of many situations in which I would have long-term access to hot water and a buck a cup to spend on instant, yet would not simply go out and buy a French press. But clearly they exist. Myself, I'll soon be doing a home renovation that will leave me without a kitchen for several days, and I'm putting away my remaining Via for then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Via Taste Test: Grading Starbucks' New Instant Coffee | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...same idea with the bedding. "At home, we don't have heavy old-school floral bedspreads," says Kowalski. And travelers were never enthusiastic about the possibility that those bedspreads weren't washed regularly. Now everything on the bed is changed. The choice of four pillows - two soft and two hard - came, says Abrahamson, from seeing guests check in with their pillows under their arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dreaming of a Rebound | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...American flavor," he says. While U.S. brands are well-trusted in a city with widespread concerns about hygiene and food safety, Shaun Rein, managing director of the China Market Research Group, isn't convinced this will translate into a successful restaurant business. "7-Eleven is going to have a hard time," Rein says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can 7-Eleven Win Over Hong Kong Foodies? | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...circles that Obama was sympathetic to them, and they can't understand why he's delivering all this bad news," Mwalimu Mati, head of an anti-corruption organization called Mars Group, tells TIME. "On the Odinga side, supporters are saying, 'Why on earth is Barack Obama being so hard on us?' " (Read about Kogelo, the hometown of Barack Obama's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talk of Kenya: What Does Obama Have Against Us? | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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