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...This smart, funny, borderline-practical handbook, which went to No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list and No. 1 on Amazon, is brimming with ideas. In it, Moore suggests a busy agenda for a Democratic President's first 10 days, including drafting rich kids to fight our wars, defeating al-Qaeda by digging water wells around the world, banning high-fructose corn syrup and making HBO free for everyone. He proposes six ways to fix elections - I mean, make the process work. (Oddly, these don't include putting elections for the presidency, the Senate and the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Michael Moore Doing This Election? | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...before the onset of a worldwide financial crisis. "The effects of a strong market have spread well beyond collectors' complaints of skyrocketed prices and the dramatic expansion of many galleries' square footage," Thornton writes. "The wealth trickles down. More artists are making a better living; a few are as rich as pop stars. Critics are busy churning out words to fill expanded editorial pages." In a few years time, Seven Days may come to be seen as one of the first chronicles of a now-bygone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art World, Demystified | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...VIDEO GAME LittleBigPlanet There aren't a ton of games that make buying the PS3 worth the money, but LittleBigPlanet is one of them. It's a game/creativity tool in which you play a little fabric doll that wanders through a rich, dreamy toyscape to the soothing sounds of light jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...will pay those taxes? Obama's plan to target the highest earners has merit, given that almost all income gains in recent years have gone to the top 1%. But because the rich can afford good tax lawyers, there are diminishing returns to increasing their tax rates. Returning to the pre-2001 top rate of 39.6% (from 35% now) would surely bring in more money, but going much higher might not. Also, the bulk of the recent gains at the top of the income spectrum has come from huge paychecks in the financial sector--paychecks that are almost sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Pay the Price | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Cutting arts funding is a symbolic measure more than it is a practical one. As Frank Rich ’71 said in The New York Times, “Bashing the NEA, like boosting school prayer, is a high-profile, low-cost way for the Gingrich G.O.P. to distract the faithful while avoiding the hard choices about cutting multibillion-dollar entitlements that might really downsize the budget.” The NEA got cut off at the knees because it was easier—and much more popular—for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to blame Robert Mapplethorpe...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: The State of the Art | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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