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Celebrate by watching Episodes IV through VI (let's be real, I-III were just bad, sorry Natalie). Or, set up a Jedi church. Or learn things that may well have had nothing to do with any of the movies or George Lucas...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna | Title: May the Fourth Be with You | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...Groundbreaking for the library is set for November of next year; organizers hope to dedicate and open the doors in early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Library Raises $100 Million in 100 Days | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...First, that Thatcher knew exactly what she wanted. She was extremely smart, with a stunning grasp of policy detail and extraordinary powers of concentration. But she evaluated policy options against a very short set of criteria. Did a proposal reduce taxation or increase it? Did it expand economic freedom or restrict it? Did it strengthen Britain's role in the world or diminish it? Did it reward initiative or encourage dependency? Keeping things simple enabled her to maintain focus on what she really wanted to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Things Obama Could Learn from Thatcher | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...weekend, dreaming that they could one day afford something more than a camping trip to France in August. Sure, like most politicians, sooner or later, she was quite at home in the glittery salons of wealth and fame, but Mrs. Thatcher remained remarkably true to those she had set out to serve. They repaid her loyalty, making her the longest-serving British Prime Minister since the 1820s. There's a lesson there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Things Obama Could Learn from Thatcher | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...Making matters worse, in the 1980s, the government-funded museum set up a department to make high-quality reproductions to sell, says Nguyen Truong, an art collector whose home in Hanoi has served as a salon for struggling artists for the past 30 years. The practice ended in the 1990s, but Truong says he was approached just last year by a museum employee who "offered a copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copied Paintings Plague Vietnam's Museum | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

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