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...distant cloud on his horizon when he did that. To oppose the war when he came home? No, he had seen too much. Two weeks after he left Vietnam, his close friend Don (Dinky) Droz was killed--Kerry still has a photo in his Senate office of the tangled mess of Droz's exploded swift boat--and Kerry felt compelled to speak out. "There have been so many tough decisions." He sighed, then conceded, "But I guess they were really piling up on top of each other last fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Mind Of John Kerry | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...none," says Chelsea Football Club CEO Peter Kenyon. But more important, the big clubs now see the U.S. as a vital market in the race to establish a global brand and cash in an ocean away from home. Soccer is wildly popular in Europe, but it's a financial mess. Only teams that have global reach will be able to afford the star players who ensure winning results year after year. Man U. was the first to launch a U.S. strategy, teaming with the New York Yankees in a joint marketing deal. It even issues an American Man U. credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning To Love Glasgow Celtic | 8/1/2004 | See Source »

...sweet, sexy relationship with his wife, an actress named Maria (Lisa Werlinder), and he owns a chic, prospering restaurant in Stockholm. Best of all, he has escaped his oppressive family and its grim, old-economy business--a Danish steelworks. But then his father commits suicide, leaving the business a mess, with Christoffer as its only possible savior. As he takes up his task, The Inheritance recounts the shutting down of his spirit--or should we say the flowering of his inner monster--in a formally elegant, subtly savage and powerfully affecting film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Captive Of Industry | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...took a glance at the mess. The former occupant of his position had taken the once proud program and mired it in mediocrity while engaging in wild financial mismanagement—a burden which fell upon the players to resolve in the form of checks made payable to Harvard University...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King James Bible: Russell’s Firing Serves as Ominous Warning for All Future Crimson Coaches | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...dance" jokes as comedy's mainstay. And while Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, right, professes to be nonpartisan, it has lately become a one-stop source for lacerating criticism of the war in Iraq (or as The Daily Show has called it, the "Mess O' Potamia") and the Administration in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cultural Campaign | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

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