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...Congress and Treasury may save the U.S. banking system and rescue mortgages which would normally go into default and move toward foreclosure. The programs may all look perfect on paper. In reality, it has become clear that when the issue of who will actually make the programs work comes up, there are not enough qualified people to go around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Treasury With Too Much To Do | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...Marine, Mellinger had been turned down by both the Marines and the Army when he sought to enlist. "I was not a perfect child," he says. He finds it strange that the compulsory military that launched his career no longer exists, but says the Army is better for it. "You get people who want to do this work," he says of today's nearly-all volunteer force. "If you had a draft at any other business in the world, you'd get people who maybe weren't suited to be accountants or drivers or mathematicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Last Draftee: "I'm a Relic" | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...Washington to get stuck in partisan posturing, or to turn back to the same tried and failed approaches that were rejected in the last election. They sent us here with a mandate for change, and the expectation that we would act. The bill before Congress isn't perfect, but it is absolutely necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barely Bipartisan, a Stimulus Deal Is Done | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...perfect at the Dollhouse. Echo has begun to recover memories, and the actives show a tendency to occasionally go haywire. It turns out that human memory is like an analog cassette tape: overwrite it too many times, and you start to hear the ghosts of old voices. Actives are meant to be clean slates, with no messy human baggage. But as preamnesia Echo notes, "You ever try cleaning an actual slate? You can always see what was on it before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dollhouse: Who Does Joss Whedon Think He Is? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...members’ names for precocious pseudonyms or wearing ridiculous masks in press photos—the band’s approach to music-making has remained consistently innovative and their output stubbornly unique.For six years and as many albums, Animal Collective narrated a sort of ongoing insane, half-perfect sonic collage of genre, building structurally damaged and occasionally brilliant pop songs out of hastily-rendered foundations of rock, folk, trance and psychedelic music. Oscillating between the creative controls of the respective halves of its founding duo, David “Avey Tare” Portner and Noah...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Animal Collective | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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