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Despite the clamps on freedom during the first years of World War II, the pockets of youthful defiance that Savage describes in Germany and occupied France showed a daring contempt for fascist authority, expressing it to the beat of American pop culture. The self-styled Swing Kids of Hamburg and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking 'Bout Their Generation | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

The movie audience has been on a post-Lenten fast lately. Last weekend's total take at the domestic box office was only $77.7 million - a most unlucky number for the studios dumping their clearance-sale titles on an apathetic market. For filmgoers, this was the purge before the binge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spider-Man Gets Sensitive | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

(4 of 4) On the face of it, there's still a stark difference in financial power the lower down the Premier League table you go. According to Deloitte's 2006 Annual Review of Football Finance, the top five earners in the 2004-05 season - Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goal Rush | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Darfur, a barren, mountainous land just below the Sahara in western Sudan, is the world's worst man-made disaster. In four years, according to the U.N., fighting has killed more than 200,000 people and made refugees of 2.5 million more. The conflict is typically characterized as genocide, waged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Prevent the Next Darfur | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

But does anyone seriously believe Osama bin Laden would be deterred from attacking the United States if he found out we are spending more on intelligence than everyone thinks? I called around to check with my former colleagues. "Who cares whether the intelligence budget is $25 or $75 billion?" a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Who Does the CIA's Work? | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

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