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...work as a pork buster, McCain has opposed flood-prevention projects in swing states like Missouri and Virginia, drought aid for Nevada and New Mexico, and economic development for Pennsylvania and West Virginia. His has been a lonely vote against funding for the Florida Everglades and Yellowstone National Park. He has opposed money for schools, bridges, military bases, disaster relief, military housing, senior housing, renewable energy programs, job training programs, health care for veterans, services for disabled kids and just about everything else his Senate colleagues have stashed into spending bills, which is to say just about everything. The National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could McCain's Crusade Against Pork Backfire? | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

...Italy's most productive and politically progressive cities, and officials make some effort to help the Roma there. It doesn't always work and a few of the people I met were justifiably angry having been let down after promises of permanent lodging. But others in the trailer park didn't care. It wasn't that the state had failed them, it was that they didn't recognize the state's existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparing for a 'Gypsy Summit' | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

...Chronicle reported that the student was passing through the Common after coming from his gym when he saw a teenage male urinating in the park. He said he was then punched in the head by another assailant and, according to the community advisory, struck several more times by three additional males...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Student Robbed Walking Through Cambridge Common | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...summation of the stars' relationship. Turk says of Rooster that "I'm always the one following him through the door," just as De Niro made his first dramatic-movie splash a couple years after Pacino earned raves for his junkie role in Panic in Needle Park. Rooster tells Turk, "You're the one I looked up to all my life and could never be." It's as if Pacino was admitting that his bantam-weight hyper-hammery, the excesses of yelling and kvelling and strutting and posturing, were his way of compensating for not having the still center of rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Righteous Kill: De Niro and Pacino, ReHEATed | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...sister Kerry is at the bark park near the West Loop, letting her dog run wild in preparation for 24 hours or more of enforced confinement. She said it was crazy busy. Obviously a lot of dog owners had the same idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston Waits for Hurricane Ike | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

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