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...should give him a little breathing space. (Asked during his weekly grilling by MPs what he'd like for Christmas, Brown sighed: "I might have one day off.") He doesn't have to hold elections until 2010. But by then, he may be forced to fathom another observation from Robert Louis Stevenson: "Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gordon Brown's Blues | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...Robert A. Mitchell is the owner of Harvard Book and Binding on the corner of JFK and Brattle streets. When FM visited one weekday afternoon, inquiring after Mitchell, the solemn man who came to the door introduced himself as Mitchell’s brother, and explained that Mitchell had passed away that day—then laughed. “Just kidding! I’m Bob.” The multi-talented Mitchell might show a customer how a water filter he has patented works by folding up an 18th century map, or perhaps have the customer...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bookstores Galore | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

CORRECTION: The Dec. 5 magazine article "Bookstores Galore" gave the wrong name for the owner of Harvard Book and Binding. He is Robert A. Marshall, not Robert A. Mitchell...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bookstores Galore | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...that would drive her to seek the title and responsibilities of International Sweetheart. “One of them is just being a part of the frat almost in that she comes to the events and helps with organization and helps us become better brothers,” said Robert Cecot ’08, another brother of Sigma Chi. After flying to California as one of three finalists and delivering her speech, Berkey became the only International Sweetheart to not be a member of a sorority since John Wayne crowned the first back...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Sweetest of Sigma Chi | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...appears to guarantee that there will be no war with Iran during the Bush Administration. It meshes with the views of the operational types at the Pentagon, who have steadfastly resisted the march to war led by some Administration hawks. The anti-war group was composed of Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and Admiral William Fallon, who oversees the U.S. forces that would have had to wage that war. In recent months, all have pushed back privately and publicly, on the wisdom of going to war with Tehran. Indeed, the Pentagon's intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Pentagon Is Happy about the NIE | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

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