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Giving citizens more power to act in these situations would mean giving individuals the right to judge preemptively whether a person is a terrorist or not. But the power to be judge and executioner is of necessity the prerogative of the state alone. Obviously we "talk like victims" because we are the targets of terrorism. I don't find it "intolerable to travel" and certainly do not see an alternative to giving Grandma a pat down. What are you proposing? Profiling passengers on age? Then we are just one step away from doing the same for gender, race and religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madam Chancellor, You Look Marvelous! | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...Jury's Still Out Your naming Ben Bernanke as Person of the Year reminds me of the Nobel Peace Prize given to President Obama: both men are being congratulated in advance of any results [Dec. 28 - Jan 4]. Don't forget that Bernanke could be wrong, and then we might find the medication is worse than the illness. The final judgment will not come for a couple of years. Jean Claude Pivot Vourles, France

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...masturbates naked in a forest and mutilates her own genitals. "The film was so dramatic and so extreme that it took all my thoughts away," she says. "It helped me recover." Von Trier still struggles to reconcile her raw performance in the movie with her soft-spoken manner in person. "Privately she is so shy. You can sit through a meal with her and she doesn't say anything," he says. "How can this very, very shy person do scenes like this?" (Read a Q&A with Lars von Trier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlotte Gainsbourg: On the Mend and Finding Solace in Music | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...This Senate seat belongs to no one person, to no political party. This is the people's seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...children. A Harvard M.B.A., Crowley quits his job as a management consultant and moves his family to be near doctors working on a cure. He soon founds his own biotech company to steer and spur the doctors' research. (In the movie, the medics are compacted into the single, ornery person of Harrison Ford.) Do they find a therapy in time to save Crowley's children? That's the film's suspense factor - a ticking time bomb attached to two winsome kids. (See pictures of Harrison Ford's career in film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extraordinary Measures: Sentiment Makes a Comeback | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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