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ROME, Italy—Last weekend, I went to the Roman forum with a friend who had just arrived from Paris. It was hot and he was disgruntled. Nothing was labeled in a helpful manner (a few bronze plaques here and there, some in Latin) and it was difficult to distinguish between the various structures. I stood in the sun and read to him from a guidebook, pleading with him to use his imagination...
...admit that the choice not to make the forum completely user friendly might not actually be a choice per se. Perhaps Italians don’t know how to handle their ancient treasures in a tourist-pleasing manner. In this sense, my friend might be right, but visitors must take Roman ruins on their own terms. The bitter-sweet taste might not induce comfort, but it does make you think...
Before he was governor of Vermont, chairman of the Democratic National Committee or a presidential candidate, Howard Dean was a family doctor. But don't expect him to weigh in on the health-reform debate in a soothing bedside manner. He's packing plenty of vitriol for both critics of President Obama's health-care proposals and the special interests jockeying for seats at the negotiating table. The former governor talked to TIME about his new book, Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform, political wrangling over bills circulating in Congress and why bipartisanship is for suckers...
Sotomayor, Sonia • pretense of there actually being anything at stake - as if the confirmation of was not a foregone conclusion - results in hostile questions being obligatorily asked of by Republicans and answered by in as unrevealing a manner as possible with endless blather about "fidelity to the law," while Senators find themselves endlessly repeating umpiring metaphor to, and surely you think that's already way more than you want to hear about this, but wait, here's Jon Stewart's take...
...that Michelle practiced law affect her style? Well, her style has evolved ... Michelle very much in the beginning dressed like a corporate executive. Kind of big, boxy suits and turtlenecks, and her hair was in a flip. I think she used to dress in a much, much more conservative manner, and I feel that as the campaign progressed, she found herself and she expressed herself much more. She started incorporating color and wearing separates and really taking risks with the way she dressed...