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...imminent, Nkunda declared a cease-fire and halted his advance. By the end of the week, the havoc wreaked in Goma had been caused chiefly by Congolese government soldiers, who stole cars, looted businesses and raped women across the city. The U.N. multinational force, "is stretched to the limit," spokesman Madnodje Mounouba tells TIME. "We have 6,000 people in North Kivu, not all are frontline soldiers, and have to be everywhere in a territory that is bigger than France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Quagmire Finally Grabs the World's Attention | 11/1/2008 | See Source »

...Anybody who gets an 'NC-17' for sex, though, goes immediately to the press because they love the publicity. Somehow it's not as sexy to get it for violence. I know it's a matter of economics. Filmmakers don't want to limit their audiences in terms of the number of people that can buy tickets. But I'd like to see nothing more than an appealing director make a very good film that goes out with an 'NC-17' like Ang Lee did with Lust, Caution. Then again, that was a foreign language film, so it didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy 40th Birthday, Movie Ratings | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...members of the panel agreed that the McCain campaign erred in attempting to limit Palin’s exposure following the announcement of her selection as the Arizona senator’s running mate...

Author: By Danella H. Debel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Analyzes Palin’s Candidacy | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...unpredictable force the 44th President will contend with. Experts are forecasting a surge in the number of Democrats in Congress that would give Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid the largest majorities either party has had since the early 1990s. This would obviously limit the options of a Republican President McCain. But Congress would be a complicating factor in the life of President Obama too. After all, the Constitution envisions a strong Congress, and that's just the way committee chairmen like it. After more than a dozen years of being stymied, first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama and McCain Would Lead | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

While Guest may have felt a time crunch, money isn’t an issue. At the register, armed with 5.4 pounds of used clothing, Guest manages to spend $5.40 out of the $24 limit. The pound goes for only $1.00 on Fridays...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Julie Claire "JC" Guest ’11 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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