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...Reserve service members have civilian jobs as first responders--police, firefighters, emergency workers--and they can be removed from their posts, sent to desk jobs or medical leave, if they seek psychological counseling for PTSD. "A lot of these people come home and find that their jobs are no longer there," says Grange, explaining why Major League Baseball included a jobs component in its program. "Ideally, if this thing works, we'll be able to link up a returning veteran with a job and counseling--and prospective employers can be reassured that the veteran isn't going to go postal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Back to Veterans | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...morphed from a mediocre rapper with a thuggish point of view into a savant who merges sex, drugs and politics with a sneaky intellect, a freakish knowledge of pop culture and a voice out of the Delta. Whether Wayne is, as he claims, the "best rapper alive" is no longer even debated in hip-hop or commercial circles. Since June 10, when his latest album, Tha Carter III, sold 1,005,545 copies in its first week, he's been the undisputed champ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lil Wayne: The Best Rapper Alive | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...once told his friend William Dean Howells that "the remorseless truth" in his work was generally to be found "between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell." But in 1900, when he could no longer stomach the foreign adventures of the Western powers, he came right out and called a pile of it a pile of it. In the previous year or two, Germany and Britain had seized portions of China, the British had also pursued their increasingly nasty war against the Boers in South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Twain: Our Original Superstar | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...address of the post, which was placed on 4chan.org, is no longer operational. But a screenshot of the original post was placed on a second online message board, AutoAdmit, where it is still accessible...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Law School Classes Canceled Because of Threat | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

Does Osama bin Laden matter anymore? You could be forgiven for thinking he doesn't. In recent months, an impressive cast of terrorism experts and counterterrorism officials around the world has coalesced around the notion that al-Qaeda's leader is no longer an active threat to the West. They point out that he has not been able to strike on U.S. soil since 9/11 or in Europe since the London bombings three summers ago. In Iraq, his most successful franchise operation is on the ropes. Across the Muslim world, opinion polls suggest his popularity has faded, and many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Osama bin Laden Still Matter? | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

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