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FOR TWO DECADES, PILGRIMS flocked to the Christ of the Hills monastery in Blanco, Texas, to lay eyes on what founder Samuel Greene Jr. and his fellow monks claimed was a miracle: a painting of the Virgin Mary that wept tears of myrrh. In 2000, after a fellow monk was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

So how do lobbyists in Gucci Gulch bribe legislators today? They do it with innuendo. If Brandstetter had said, "As you know, Mr. Swanstrom, NOW has a history of contributing to political campaigns. And it has contributed more to candidates with a voting record that is compatible with our goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Steven Pinker: Words Don't Mean What They Mean | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Three of pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma's top current and former executives skirted a prison sentence in federal court today, winding up instead with three years probation and 400 hours of community service to serve instead. Federal Judge James P. Jones ordered the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punishing OxyContin's Maker | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

And politically the move will probably change little. Those who suspect the worst about the Administration's role in the Plame case are not likely to become any more motivated than they already were against Bush and the Republicans. On the right, the Republican base, which demanded mercy for Libby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Bush's Easy Commute | 7/2/2007 | See Source »

What other solutions do you favor? We need three things: sentencing reform, better prison rehabilitation programming, and parole reform. Part of our problem is structural. Under our current sentencing law, we can send people back to prison for technical parole infractions. [Some other states only order jail time or community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: How to Fix California's Prisons | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

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