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The original Trabi was intended to be East Germany's answer to the Volkswagen Beetle, the symbol of West Germany's economic miracle and rise after World War II. But the Trabi was more a mockery. It had a plastic body and was driven by a two-stroke engine that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Trabi, East Germany's Clunker, On the Comeback? | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

The Great Recession has not become another Great Depression - the markets have rebounded, and Bernanke declared last week that the worst of the downturn appears to be over - so Obama really had no choice but to reappoint Bernanke, even though White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers has yearned for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Reappointed Bernanke to the Fed | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

That status quo now consists of a full-bore pursuit of a nuclear-weapons program - despite a pledge to cease and desist at the so-called six-party talks held during the Bush Administration - as well as a long-range missile development program that continues despite a U.N. resolution calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Makes Nice: An Opening for the U.S.? | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

Undergraduate Council (UC): 1. Self-important but incompetent band of campus politicos whose Sunday-night meetings provide comic relief in the pages of the Monday-morning Crimson. 2. The only readers of The Crimson’s UC coverage.

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

But sanctions against Libya had proved useful for the West not only in pursuing the perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing, but - perhaps more important in the minds of Washington and London - boxing in one of the developing world's most persistent troublemakers, who had spent two decades making mischief throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the West Will Be in no Rush to Lift Libya Sanctions | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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