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...past and realizing that they need to shift production to smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles (though it does seem as if they're just tossing that in there because such talk is all the rage these days). Who knows how much is genuine. Can giant corporations be genuine about stuff like that? Yet the case is also effectively made that the failure of the Big Three would be absolutely disastrous for a ton of people. Reading these reports leaves one feeling an odd combination of anger and pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM, Ford and Chrysler's Bailout Plans | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...really sure if this is designed to impress or if it's simply an effective use of the CEO's time. After all, he's got to get from A to B, so he can use this otherwise dead period to fill some idiot reporter's head with stuff. The joke's on them, though, because on a corporate jet, the subject is trapped. He can hardly say, "Well, I'd like to talk to you a little longer but I've got a meeting across town." Not without a ripcord. (See the Top 10 Golden Parachutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Big Three Should Fly Corporate Jets | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

After getting his degree, Michael E. Kopko ’07 did what many recent college grads do—packed up his stuff and moved into an even smaller living space in New York. However, instead of choosing (selling his soul to) Goldman Sachs, he decided to gather some of his friends from high school and start his own company: GradeFund.com. GradeFund connects college students to sponsors who pay them for their good grades. Potential sponsors range from parents to prospective employers. People who pay you to get good grades? Sounds like parents...awesome parents. And this isn?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Fund to Give Greenbacks for Grades | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

Yeah, I do. It was not only an interesting race. I do think it was transformative. We're not out of the woods on all this stuff. But it means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calvin Trillin | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...wonderful things about it is the people I've always referred to as "Sabbath gasbags" - the Washington people who appear on television on Sunday - were wrong, I guess, 100% of the time. They were almost never right. There were constant surprises. Who expected any of this stuff? It was only in looking back at it that you realized, hey, at one point this was going to be [Rudy] Giuliani vs. Hillary Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calvin Trillin | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

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