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...because the traveling undermined his family life. He's a new man, and if he looks a little bleary it's probably because he's been woken by his young sons or risen early to take his wife, a high-powered attorney, to the airport. His liberalism is the kind that prizes civil liberties and equality of opportunity, and repudiates vested interests, even when they come in the shape of venerable institutions. That includes his determination to overhaul Britain's "19th century, very male, very uncontemporary" political system. (See pictures of 20th Century Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nick Clegg: In the Balance | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...Take the first section, which comprises 13 brief stories written while Hwang was a student in Tokyo, and first published as a single book, Hwang Sun Won Tanpyonjip (literally, "Hwang Sun Won Story Collection"), in Korea in 1940. In it there are upheavals of every kind: spiritual, geological, corporeal, romantic, ethical, political. An earthquake rocks the Japanese capital, while beggars shiver in the cold. Anticipatory lovers throb with desire in the shadowed alleyways of "Trumpet Shells." In "The Offering," a young boy who kills an old red rooster for no good reason is wracked by guilt and fevers. In "Scarecrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Checkered Korea | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...fighting off an infestation of angels. Swarms of these winged pests have invaded the movie Legion, the video game Bayonetta and the TV series Supernatural, and now they've turned up in a book called Angelology by Danielle Trussoni. They're like cicadas. And these aren't the good kind of angel either. They're the fallen kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angelology: Wings of Desire | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...once and future host of The Tonight Show lasted about a minute and a half. The cold open had him waking up in a sepia-toned sequence à la Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. In the monologue he said, "We were off for the last couple of weeks--kind of like the Russians at the Olympics!" And then it was back to what could have been a Leno monologue from before The Jay Leno Show--and before the Obama Administration, for that matter. Leno and NBC have a delicate task with the Tonight Show relaunch: making an event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Returned | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...draw is their low-impact, calorie-burning workout. And there's the x factor: "They're a lot of fun to ride," says Bryan Dobes, 33, of River Vale, N.J. "It kind of makes you feel like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kickbike and Enjoy It | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

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