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Richard Stengel, a former TIME writer and editor who is currently president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, was named managing editor of TIME magazine on Wednesday. He succeeds Jim Kelly, who was promoted earlier this week to the position of managing editor of Time...
...presidential campaigns. As a senior editor for the magazine, he oversaw the Nation and Arts sections and was editor of Time.com, the magazine's website. He left TIME in 2004 to head up the National Constitution Center, a museum, education center and think tank on Independence Mall in Philadelphia dedicated to teaching the importance of the Constitution and civic engagement...
...were a guide who's led this tour for years and is doing it by rote. For them it might be a passion; for him, it's just a job. Hanks, too, seems to sleepwalk through the part; he gives it the fretful stare that spoke tragic volumes in Philadelphia and Saving Private Ryan but just registers as numb here. The villains fare a bit better. Bettany gets some poignance out of his role as self-flagellator and avenging devil, and Alfred Molina, as an Opus Dei poobah, plays liturgical corruption as if he were an Enron exec in robes...
...arranged for weekly farmers' markets at 29 of its hospitals and has switched to milk from cows raised without synthetic hormones at all its medical centers. Organic fruits and vegetables are now being served at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In Hermiston, Ore., Good Shepherd Health Care System banned potato chips in favor of baby carrots and replaced beef with antibiotic- and hormone-free bison. "It has 75% less fat than beef and a third less fat than chicken," says dietitian Nancy Gummer...
...relieved to know that it's possible to have a nonawkward conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld. In fact, she answers the door of her sunny apartment in downtown Philadelphia with actual aplomb. Sittenfeld has a dramatically curvy nose, dark straight hair and a loud, appealing laugh. Seriocomic misunderstandings are kept to a minimum as we tour the study where she writes her novels; it's airy and messy--she and her boyfriend moved in last August, but there are still boxes on the floor. So far, you would never know that you were visiting the home of the Faulkner of awkwardness...