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The way I looked at food changed radically. Rather than accounting for taste, I analyzed everything in terms of potential cost versus potential fullness. That jar of jelly? Like eating money—better stick to plain peanut butter. Go to the gym? Might make me hungrier afterwards. I even...

Author: By Allison A. Frost | Title: Hunger Pangs | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

That comes from his voracious interest in the world of ideas. If he had read only his own stuff he'd be one of the best-read people I know. But he's as insatiable a reader as he is a writer. The time he's spent watching movies, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thumbs Up for Roger Ebert | 6/23/2007 | See Source »

'This is the greatest and most distinguished guest we have ever had in all times.' SALI BERISHA, Albanian Prime Minister, on George W. Bush, who visited the tiny Balkan country on June 10-the first sitting U.S. President to do so. Albania marked the occasion by renaming the street in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

That proved unnecessary, but the grim Wall nonetheless provided a dramatic backdrop for Reagan's attempt to reassert leadership of the Western alliance. Before an audience estimated at 20,000, the President rose to the occasion. Referring to the city's division and deliberately inviting comparison with John F. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To the Berlin Wall | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

Twenty years ago, on the morning of June 12, 1987, Reagan arrived in Berlin, on the occasion of the city's 750th birthday. He was scheduled to speak on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate, for years the city's symbolic dividing line. His speechwriters had drafted an address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 20 Years After "Tear Down This Wall" | 6/11/2007 | See Source »

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