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...pass legislation setting protected standards within which the CIA may continue detaining and interrogating terrorists who are caught in the future - while sending others to be tried in military tribunals. Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, pronounced the CIA prisons "a thing of the past." But Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, told of Graham's conclusion, said he was "not so sure." Bush, who is at a low ebb in relations and credibility with Congress, faces tough sledding if he wants to get his legislation passed exactly as he demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiling the Terrorists | 9/6/2006 | See Source »

...There's a hurricane watch for Tropical Storm Ernesto. That's the name: Ernesto. See, even the hurricanes are getting smarter. They know a Hispanic hurricane has a better chance of getting into the country." --JAY LENO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...film is strongest in exposing the capriciousness of the standards for judging movies. "There was no rater-training process," Jay Landers, a former member, tells Dick. "People were hired, they were put into the screening room, put into the rating chair and started rating films." Further, those who challenge the MPAA rating for a particular film are not allowed to cite movies with similar scenes that got a milder rating. "It's not like a legal proceeding where you can quote precedent," says Wayne Kramer, director of The Cooler. The legal equivalent to this strange rule would be that every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censuring the Movie Censors | 9/2/2006 | See Source »

Beyoncé is also half of a much discussed couple, although her career has never been defined by her relationship with rapper and Def Jam Recordings president Jay-Z. Still, on her previous record she and her boyfriend got together and whipped up Crazy in Love, a colossal hit that rivals the Ronettes' Be My Baby in its ability to turn an innocent crush into something worthy of a wall of sound. On B'day, Beyoncé's second solo album, the power couple tries to recapture the magic on two tracks, Upgrade U and Deja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to my Bubble | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...distance of about 20 ft. Is the owl not home? Is it using some owl camouflage power on us? Is this even the right tree? In the past hour Franzen, 47, who's a pretty hard-core bird watcher, has already spotted California quail, some towhees, a scrub jay, a flicker and a few acorn woodpeckers. So far no owl, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Jonathan Franzen Learned To Stop Worrying (Sort Of) | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

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