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...Reloville, Peter T. Kilborn focuses on a more recent phenomenon: work-imperative relocation. "Relos" must contend with an ultra-competitive job market, now made worse by recession, that drags them and their families from town to town. Kilborn examines the price families pay in Relovilles as they try to maintain a bit of consistency in their lives and concludes that the trend isn't so much good or bad as just rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...grant applications can be approved or denied. Similarly, student issues do not disappear from one year to the next, nor do they lack import during the first weeks of the year. While the UC president and vice president have a history of remaining on campus throughout the summer to maintain project momentum—often with great success—functionally dissolving the UC in May leaves them alone to represent an entire student body until elections in October. No matter the prowess of the president and vice president, no two individuals can possibly hear and effectively address the multitude...

Author: By Crimson staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Time Waits for No Council | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...will be dropped from the health-reform legislation. But that's a small point, compared with the larger issue that has clouded this summer: How can you sustain a democracy if one of the two major political parties has been overrun by nihilists? And another question: How can you maintain the illusion of journalistic impartiality when one of the political parties has jumped the shark? (See pictures of angry health-care protesters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Has Become a Party of Nihilists | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...mercenaries for a covert (if ultimately fruitless) program to hunt down and kill al-Qaeda leaders? Despite sensational claims in today's New York Times and Washington Post, the Agency continues to maintain omerta on the secret program, which Director Leon Panetta cancelled in late June. But former CIA hands, including Panetta's predecessor Michael Hayden, are rallying to its defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officials Defend CIA's Use of Contractors | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...uprising by the militant Islamic group. Boko Haram members attacked police stations, churches, schools and private homes, killing nearly 800 people in an effort to overthrow the government and impose a stricter version of Islamic law in Africa's most populous nation. Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, seeking to maintain control of an increasingly volatile situation, ordered an investigation into Yusuf's death, which authorities claim occurred during an attempted escape. Human-rights groups say the leader may have been executed as an example to deter other militants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

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