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TIME helps our readers understand what matters, and our terrific package on Teddy Roosevelt shows how T.R. helped create the modern presidency and even the paradigm of today's politics. I also want to pay tribute to those who created our Roosevelt issue. It was overseen by Priscilla Painton and Richard Lacayo, who was a superb player-coach and wrote two pieces for the issue. We commissioned pieces from the historian Paul Kennedy and some of Roosevelt's most prominent recent biographers, including Kathleen Dalton, Candice Millard and Patricia O'Toole. Presidential adviser Karl Rove sent in his story Friday...
...parent says what she likes best about Eton is that her son is "on his own, but not alone." There are no enforced study periods. Boys are expected to manage their own busy lives. They live in houses with about 50 others, each with his own bedroom, overseen by a senior teacher in residence, perhaps with his own family; this housemaster, whose standard term is 13 years, keeps a close eye on his charges. The reports he writes to a boy's parents are often gems of shrewd character dissection. The ethos is intimate, reinforced by a compulsory daily meeting...
...trophies for a photo shoot. With not only the Ivy League Championship but also the NCAA Championship under their belts, they have something to celebrate.And at the edge stands the man who made it all happen. Peter Brand, head coach of the Harvard fencing program since 1999, has overseen an almost miraculous turnaround in the sport’s fortunes at the University. When he arrived in Cambridge, Harvard fencing was a relative nonentity on the national map. Now, however, thanks to a mix of Brand’s canny recruitment of both fencers and deputy coaches...
...Jean, who again took up the helm of the show after his earlier years as showrunner with Reiss, is now in his sixth consecutive year leading the crew. After this year, Jean will have overseen nearly half of the show’s entire...
...convince nearby residents that they are not endangered by the ticking bomb, state and local emergency management agencies (overseen by the NRC) have created a contingency plan for dealing with a disaster. People living within the evacuation zone have received a potassium iodide pill that looks remarkably like Tylenol, which they must take if Vermont Yankee melts down (or blows up). The pill plan, reminiscent of the duck-and-cover Cold War contingencies, does not inspire much confidence...