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...minutes later, he reboarded Air Force One, having spent just over six hours on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Afghan Visit: Progress and Prodding | 3/28/2010 | See Source »

...opening ceremony at the 2008 Beijing Games. Suspended by cables, Li soared into the air and ran a slow-motion aerial lap around the Bird's Nest before lighting the Olympic cauldron in front of an estimated 4 billion television viewers - much to the annoyance of Adidas, which had spent some $80 million to sponsor the Games. (See pictures of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can China's Big Shoe Brand Make Tracks in the U.S.? | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

While many Harvard students spent their spring breaks relaxing and traveling, some seniors remained on campus or went home last week to work on their senior theses, which were due after vacation...

Author: By Julia R Jeffries, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thesis Writers Utilize Break | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...stunt gave Breitbart - who like many online scribes had spent much of his professional life toiling in anonymity - a public persona. In January, O'Keefe was arrested in New Orleans on charges of entering the offices of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu under false pretenses while preparing another undercover video. That only boosted Breitbart's profile. At the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville in February, Breitbart introduced the star speaker, Sarah Palin, and delivered a rousing jeremiad of his own. Assailing national reporters for portraying the movement as "racist and homophobic," he used the dais at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Breitbart: The Web's New Right-Wing Impresario | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...South was a revelation for Breitbart. Southerners, whom he'd assumed from their depiction on TV to be Neanderthals, were warm and smart and less neurotic than Californians. The social life at Tulane was splendid. "I was a drunk," says Breitbart, who estimates he spent five nights a week at New Orleans bars with fellow Delta Tau Delta fraternity members. The classroom experience was less satisfying. "I didn't read Mark Twain," he says. "I read critical theorists. I graduated with a degree in nihilism and nothingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Breitbart: The Web's New Right-Wing Impresario | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

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