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...Bush Administration, not surprisingly, rejects the notion that it has somehow corrupted the system. Says Clay Johnson, Deputy Director of Management for the Office of Management and Budget and Chairman of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, which oversees all government IGs: "By almost all accounts, this Administration has done more to improve government effectiveness than any previous Administration, ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Watchdogs Under Fire | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...hardly unusual for Harvard. And yet the singers continue to exchange sidelong glances.When they begin to dance, it becomes apparent why.The bewildered performers have difficulty keeping straight faces as the semi-circle begins to weave through itself. The singers move their hands through a series of unnatural gestures, somehow resembling the dance for “Walk Like an Egyptian.” One girl looks around with uncertainty to make sure she’s not the only one. Indeed, if they weren’t all such gifted musicians, the whole spectacle of interwoven lines of anxious-looking...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Opera Brings Dark Age to the Stage | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...match the accompanying visual. Views of the audience show young children, grandparents, and many people who probably have never heard Sigur Rós’s music before. They are not smiling or singing along but rather listening closely, pondering each song’s perplexing beauty.Yet somehow “Heima” comes together seamlessly. Even though the film has little plot, meaning and emotion flood each scene. When the band performs at an abandoned fishery, strobe lights and roaring guitars bring spirit to the lifeless locale. Elsewhere, playful anthem “Hoppípolla?...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sigur Rós | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Vietnam's government last year banned sex-selection abortion and even barred doctors performing routine ultrasounds from revealing the sex of the fetus. But the laws are all but impossible to enforce. Every expectant mother somehow learns whether she is expecting a boy or a girl. Abortions are readily available for around $5 in government clinics. "We must expand our propaganda activities to educate people aching to have boys," says Nguyen Ba Thuy, deputy minister of health. Other Asian countries have seen the sex imbalance towards boys reverse, including South Korea, one of the first countries to report the missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam's Girls Go Missing | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...price computer that its backers are billing as nothing less than the most ambitious education project in world history. "We are blasting off," Negroponte said, as his car rolled through downtown Rome between appointments. "I can look at everything I've done in my life, and it was somehow all pointing to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Cheap Computers to the World | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

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