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...snow in the summer, a giant tiger. Is there something about Manhattan that makes it an unreal place in your mind? It's both real and unreal. The pressure of money and ambition and the forces of aspiration and yearning that make up that island also make it into kind of a virtual reality. There's something about Manhattan that's half a concept. People are living inside this concept as much as inside the real territory. But it is also real, and I wanted to capture the texture and the material sense of it - what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...stands in for the information surrounding us that we're trying to make sense of, including our own behavior, our own culture, other people's lives. With people like Perkus - the most exaggerated collectors or self-appointed experts - there's a poignancy to it. I love that kind of behavior, and I guess I'm guilty of it myself at times. It's the human condition taken to one very absurd extreme, like someone finding a dusty old VHS tape of a Steve Martin comedy from the '80s and deciding, "There's the answer, it's inside that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Rose, an acclaimed interviewer, contented himself with pitching softballs (How is the Harvard of the '60s and '70s different from that today?) and inane questions (Imagine a freshman asks you, "What do you want me to get out of this? What kind of person should I become in the next four years?"). Faust, the humble historian, talked about diversity and lauded the Q guide as an example of Harvard's dedication to quality teaching. (Unfortunately, only the first ten minutes of Faust's interview were posted on Charlie Rose's Web site...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu | Title: Our Fearless Leader on the Tube | 10/18/2009 | See Source »

...didn't talk long," said Gary. "Ben said he wanted to let his men use the phone while they had one. That's who Ben was: generous, kind, always looking out for others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Death in Afghanistan: Ben Sklaver's Story | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...holding a referendum on constitutional reform that could have lifted Honduras' ban on presidential re-election. And he claims he's protecting Honduras from the sway of Zelaya's left-wing ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. But critics say Micheletti is acting a lot like just the kind of authoritarian caudillo he accuses Chávez of being. Micheletti recently fired back at visiting OAS delegates that they and his other critics "don't know the whole truth, and at times it appears that you don't want to hear it." Neither Micheletti nor his spokespeople have answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is U.S. Opposition to the Honduran Coup Lessening? | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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