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...review that are not there," compared with articles elsewhere in the magazine. That's no excuse, says Daniel Okrent, who just ended an 18-month stint as "public editor"--basically, the internal critic--of the New York Times. "It doesn't say at the top of that page 'Stuff that we didn't check as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Story Goes Terribly Wrong | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

...contrarians like Wadhwaney, 51, investing is a matter of avoiding manias and searching instead for bedraggled castoffs that are cheap precisely because the in-crowd won't touch them. "I don't buy prime merchandise," he says. "I buy stuff that's fraught with discomfort. I buy some terrible things." Yet these terrible things produce terrific returns. Wadhwaney's $1.26 billion mutual fund has racked up annualized gains of 22.5% since its birth three-and-a-half years ago?double the rise of a comparable index of non-U.S. stocks. (I've entrusted his firm, Third Avenue Management, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hidden Assets | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

...other major oil companies.) To keep tabs on its spending, the company requires that all projects of $50 million or more--a small figure for a company of ExxonMobil's heft--must go before a five-member management committee for approval. "They've decided that throwing money at stuff doesn't make sense, unlike oil companies in the past that got high prices and went crazy," says Susan Byrne, chairman of Dallas-based Westwood Management, an investment firm that owns ExxonMobil shares. "They are not going to go on a spending spree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: A Barrel of Cash | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

...know, at the beginning of the year there was a lot of political stuff. Now there's a lot of pop culture in the news. Everything is like a big giant soup right now--you know, like Laura Bush is a desperate housewife. It's always more fun when there's more political stuff going on. There's just so much more juicy stuff to dive into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Amy Poehler | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

Well, in general, you just have to create more stuff for yourself. When you hear the list of comedies in development at studios, they're all about these two guys--these two guys take a road trip, two guys go to dental school, two guys decide to race cars for a living. So it's just about more people writing stories where the woman drives the story and more women developing more stuff for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Amy Poehler | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

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