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...about to celebrate change with the rest of the country, sending Adams to Washington to attend Barack Obama's Inauguration, sex reared its head again. On Jan. 11, Breedlove sent a text message to Willamette Week reporter Nigel Jaquiss, who had persisted in pressing the younger man to speak on the record. Wrote Breedlove: "I'm scared. If the story goes to print without me saying anything, I'm worried I will look like a scumbag. If I do say anything, then Sam's fate is in my hands." (Read a 1956 TIME story about another scandal in Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Portland's Gay Mayor Survive a Scandal? | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...been raking in awards is simply that Western audiences haven't seen many films like it before. "It is a good film, no doubt," says Manpreet Singh, a graphics designer based in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. "The narrative style and the plot are interesting. But if I speak for Indians like me, there's nothing new in it for us. It's saturated with stereotyped images of India. The expectations that had built up [around the film] were bound to make it a letdown." Vikas Swarup, author of Q and A, on which the screenplay is based, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slumdog Millionaire, an Oscar Favorite, Is No Hit in India | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

...They're not so quiet anymore. In this preserved space, the walls speak out for hundreds of thousands of Chinese, landing in what they thought of as a haven of opportunity only to meet with indifference, condescension and incarceration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Ellis Island | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...them are the ones who, by all outward appearances, have no motives or identity outside those of the President. "You are hired for your judgment. You are not hired with an independent agenda," explains Ken Duberstein, who held the job for six months under Ronald Reagan. "When you speak, the voice people hear is the President's voice, not your own." Indeed, if you ever hear anything at all about the chief of staff, that is probably not a good sign. (See also Sununu, John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enforcer Named Emanuel | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...hardware, but it's change you can believe in. On Feb. 17, the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 is scheduled to go into effect, and one of the great technological monuments of this country, one that has endured for 68 years, will be rendered obsolete. I speak, of course, of the analog television signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Requiem for Rabbit Ears | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

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