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France has long liked to see itself as the other, non-American model for organizing a modern economy, with a rich tradition of exalting the state and disdaining "Anglo-Saxon"-style capitalism. So it would be completely de rigueur for the French to smile smugly over Washington's French-style intervention in the financial markets. But by and large, they're not. For however suddenly the U.S. government has embraced the Gallic tradition of nationalization, the French economy has itself been slowly and surely becoming très américaine. As a result, the impulse to utter "I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Gloating in France on Finance Crisis | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

Japan's ruling party is betting on a little attitude going a long way. On Sept. 22, the Liberal Democratic Party gave itself a personality injection by electing Taro Aso, a Roman Catholic, "manga"-loving conservative with a wry smile and a sharp tongue, as its new president. The LDP must now wait to see if Aso's ascendance will be enough for the party to regain the five-decade legislative stranglehold it lost last year in the Diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Next Prime Minister: Taro Aso | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...tried ... via mobile [phone] to no avail." The woman died two hours later. I find her husband grinding peanuts in a Freetown market. "She delivered a healthy baby," he says, showing me a photograph of his wife, a tall woman with a confident, beaming smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in Birth | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

After years of allegedly suffering sexist treatment at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School professor Carol A. Warfield may finally have something to smile about...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School Prof. Gender Bias Lawsuit Moves Forward | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...comforted. Standing in the crowd on Wednesday, Karen Foo, 29, said she was only dimly aware of the underlying assets in the investment trust her insurance policy is linked to. She was determined to sell at the earliest opportunity. "I'm a little worried," Foo said with a tight smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIG Bailout Spooks Customers Around the World | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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