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Despite pivoting from defense to offense, McCain was stuck in quicksand. The Republicans' post-convention bounce faded as it ran into the financial mess, and Obama moved back into the front-runner's position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...isolated village with mostly sympathetic Italians. The men certainly can't be indifferent to the atrocities visited on their hosts. One such scene (based on fact, like much of the novel and the movie) leaves the viewer in numbed bereavement. As Negron puts it, "They killed so many, they ran out of bullets. They burnt so many, they ran out of fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee Goes to War with Miracle at St. Anna | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...First ran for U.S. Senate in 1962 and narrowly lost to a Democratic incumbent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two-Minute Bio: Senator Ted Stevens | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Ran for U.S. Senate again in 1968. He lost, but when the state's senior senator died in office in December 1968, Alaska's governor appointed Stevens to the seat. He defeated a member of the John Birch Society in a special election in 1970 and has been since re-elected six times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two-Minute Bio: Senator Ted Stevens | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Israeli newspapers ran interviews with McCartney on their front pages and featured little celebrity nuggets such as Sir Paul requesting that his Royal Suite be fitted out with a specially tuned piano and a plate of Jerusalem humus. McCartney, whose show celebrates Israel's 60th anniversary, brushed off the death threat from Islamic radicals. "I do what I think and I have many friends who support Israel," he told the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. In another interview, with the Jerusalem Post, McCartney said: "Any high-profile event brings with it some worries." He added: "I think that most people understand that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beatlemania Hits Israel, Four Decades Late | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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