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...Gutierrez's December meetings with al-Qahtani took place at Guantanamo's Delta Camp 5, which the military calls a "maximum security, semi-permanent, hardened facility." Thick cement walls loom over the tropical landscape. Inside are two-story cellblocks branching out from a guard station. Thick metal doors seal tiny cells; no one but Military Police can see in or out except for surveillance on closed-circuit television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detainee 063: A Broken Man? | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...their respective party's' leaders on ethics and lobbying reform, Barack Obama and John McCain, were engaged earlier this week in a highly personal tiff on the issue. Obama, being pushed by Senate Democratic leaders to use the lobbying reform issue to help attack the GOP as elections loom in November, last week sent a letter to McCain, saying Democrats would pursue their own ethics bill rather than joining a bill created by McCain's bipartisan task force. In a letter this week, the Arizona Senator blasted Obama. "I?m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lobbying Reform Stumbles | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...result in the sensation of sudden insight. In one experiment, they were asked to look at words that came up one at a time on a computer screen and to think of the one word that was associated with all of them. After each word?red, nut, bowl, loom, cup, basket, jelly, fresh, cocktail, candy, pie, baking, salad, tree, fly, etc.?they had to give their best guess. Although many swore they had no idea until a sudden burst of insight at about the 12th word, their guesses got progressively closer to the solution: fruit. Even when an idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...similar fate for his homeland if it makes vengeance state policy. In these last frames Spielberg makes the connection between Israel in September of 1972 and the United States in September of 2001 explicit: as Kauffman and his handler part ways, their dispute still unresolved, the Twin Towers loom over the horizon. The distance between New York and Munich is shorter than we imagined.Spielberg provides no easy answers for the questions he raises in “Munich,” only a reformulation of Prime Minsiter Meir’s dictum: every civilization finds it necessary to wrestle with...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Munich | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

Huma Farid: A blanket her grandmother made on a loom...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Their Objects | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

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