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...national clearinghouse for, and arbiter of, decency (though other groups, like the Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, remain active in the cause as well). It has focused heavily on advertisers; for instance, it claims to have driven away 50 sponsors from FX's edgy Nip/Tuck and The Shield. It offers program-content reviews and other tools for parents, who, Bozell stresses, have the chief responsibility for their kids. "It's not as simple as 'It's all Hollywood's fault,'" he says. And the PTC has harnessed technology: besides the ETS, it says it has an e-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decency Police | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...uprising, tens of thousands of Shi'ites and Kurds were killed by the raw power of Saddam's helicopters and tanks and secret police. What was different this time? No Saddam. The American army had come ashore to disarm and depose him. After the sword, it provided the shield to allow 8 million Iraqis to revel in their first exercise of democratic self-governance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

Actress Glenn Close joins the cast of the cable TV show The Shield on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Glenn Close | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...watch The Shield before signing on? No! No, I was in for a rude and shocking awakening. They came east, made this terrific pitch and brought me DVDs of all the seasons since the pilot. So I thought, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Glenn Close | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...holder of an endowed chair leads a tenuous life and must often take cover behind a shield of anonymity. The unknown professor who took Summers’ apologies to be disingenuous, the “senior faculty member” who speculated on his future—these endangered souls chose a safer path than their colleagues, who went on-the-record for The Crimson and will presumably be shot at sunrise...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: FOCUS: We Are Not Spineless | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

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