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That description could also fit Fernàndez and her husband N??stor Kirchner. Both cut their political teeth not amid the upper crust of Buenos Aires but in his home province of Santa Cruz, in the country's Patagonian south. When they moved to the capital, she was already a seasoned politician, known for anticorruption and human-rights crusades. Although she had greater name recognition with voters, the couple decided that Kirchner would run for President in 2003 because his greater familiarity with economic policy made him better suited to a country on the verge of bankruptcy. Smart call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Latin Hillary Clinton | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...garage of broken athletic equipment and age-old recycling and stashed the stroller upstairs (after we used it to cart in a case of Brooklyn Lager, of course). After considering the important factors of noise pollution and bedtime, we set doors to open at the admittedly un-rock n?? roll time of 7 p.m. On the plus side, we figured this gave us at least an hour before the cops showed...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez | Title: Police On My Back (And In My Garage) | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...from religion. The two are interwoven. Removing the churches from the Boston skyline would be equivalent to creating a New York without skyscrapers. Forgetting Southern gospel songs would be as much a blow to our culture as if we turned our back on jazz and rock ’n?? roll. Cherishing our freedom to hold any or no religion is as important as practicing our freedom of speech. Our history with religion might be filled with bumps and wrong turns but so is our history as a people...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: One Nation Under God | 5/23/2007 | See Source »

...rock star. You know, the experience is pretty similar,” he says. “It can be pretty grueling and I get more groupies with the air guitar thing than with anything else. It’s as if I was going on tour with Guns N?? Roses.” Crane’s involvement with the tour represents an honest effort to promote the international pastime that has become a summation of all that keeps us human: energy, emotion, honesty, and above all, “airness...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AIR TO THE THRONE | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

Veolia's history is no less complicated. After 1994 chairman Jean-Marie Messier moved Compagnie Gn??rale des Eaux full steam into the media business, but his empire cracked after a high-gloss purchase of Seagram to form Vivendi Universal. After Messier's ignominious fall in 2002 in a morass of debt, the environmental-services businesses spun off and dropped the tainted name Vivendi to become Veolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thirst for Growth | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

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