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...because we were just saying to the older generation, "We don't accept your values or your taboos, and you're all fascists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Vivienne Westwood | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...permit new car buyers to deduct auto loan interest and sales tax on their personal income taxes. "We think temporarily making interest deductible on car loans would spur sales," says NADA economist Paul Taylor. The NADA is also supporting "cash for clunkers" initiatives, which encourage consumers to upgrade their older cars to cleaner, more fuel-efficient models. "None of these have been costed out yet," says an aide to a Democratic member of the House of Ways and Means Committee. But she says they are likely to be part of the economic stimulus package proposed by the new Obama administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Auto Bailout Keeps Growing, and Growing | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Hare could be up for another Oscar nod this year for his latest screenplay, an adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader. The film, with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, follows a German teenager's love affair with an older woman he later discovers was a Nazi concentration-camp guard. For Hare, it's both a meditation on truth and reconciliation, and an exploration of how ordinary Germans became complicit in Nazi horrors. The Reader revisits his signature subject: how personal responsibility meshes with historical events. And it underlines his role as modern theater's great connector, examining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Hare: Truth to Power | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...days after Obama, will, by contrast, be one of the youngest Treasury Secretaries ever, and he will land in the office at one of the most critical junctures in U.S. economic history. But his elevation to the top job at Treasury has long been expected. Geithner has been doing older people's jobs for years. I first met him 18 years ago, when we were both based in Tokyo. He was 29 years old then and was the deputy financial attaché at the U.S. embassy. We hit it off, as he did with many of the expat journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Tim Geithner Lead the Economy Out of Its Mess? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Author Benoit Denizet-Lewis (who reveals his own long battle with sex addiction in the book) dives deep into the lives of these and four other average Americans who struggle with self-destructive urges. As Denizet-Lewis writes, "nearly 23 million Americans - 9.2 percent of the population twelve or older - are hooked on alcohol or drugs, another 61 million smoke cigarettes, and millions more are slaves to gambling, compulsive overeating, and sex and pornography." (See TIME's look at the state of American health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Faces of Addiction | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

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