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...when Rep. Patrick Kennedy, 38, smashed his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill around 2:45 a.m. on Thursday morning, which was first reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. About 36 hours later Kennedy, a Rhode Island Congressman and the youngest of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's three children with his wife Joan Kennedy, was standing before microphones on Capitol Hill to announce that he was headed to the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to battle what he said had been a longtime struggle with addiction and depression. He also told the group that he'd been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennedy's Democratic Distraction | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...added, "I simply do not remember getting out of bed, being pulled over by the police, or being cited for three driving infractions." Kennedy also declared: "That's not how I want to live my life. And that's not how I want to represent the people of Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennedy's Democratic Distraction | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...March of 2000, he was videotaped shoving a Los Angeles airport security guard, and in August, the Coast Guard intervened when he had an argument with a girlfriend on a rented yacht. Since he became the youngest Kennedy elected to office when he won a seat in the Rhode Island state house at the age of 21, Kennedy has made no secret of the fact that the family legacy can weigh on his generation. In an interview with TIME back in July of 2001, he said that since privacy is the "ultimate luxury" in his position, "there's no sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennedy's Democratic Distraction | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...many Western minds, the Kurdish-dominated, mountainous northern part of Iraq is an island of relative stability amidst the chaos and bloodshed that wreak havoc in the rest of the country. In fact, with the Kurds boxed in on all sides by jealous and often unfriendly neighbors, that image has always been a bit misguided. But lately the sectarian tensions that surround the Kurdish enclave have begun to make their presence felt more strongly, threatening not just the Kurds' way of life but U.S. hopes for bringing some measure of peace and stability to all of Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Trouble Brewing for the Kurds? | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

...Savitsky first acted in high school, and pursued it at Harvard until she fell into costuming, assistant directing, and ultimately producing. She learned the ropes of each job informally. Savitsky says she has done everything from visiting a bleak but beautiful island off the coast of Ireland that greatly influenced the playwright of “The Playboy of the Western World” to spending eight hours burning prom dresses for the costumes of prisoners in another play, so that they might look as though they had been “dragged out of the furnace...

Author: By Caroline C. Corbitt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OFA Prizes Young Artists: Zoe M. Savitsky '07 | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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