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...There's an inevitability to health-care reform," Tom Daschle said, the first time I ever heard him talk about the subject. "The question is, how good will it be?" That was on Dec. 14, 1993, when Daschle was still a relatively junior member of the Senate. He was standing before a skeptical business group in Watertown, S.D., trying to explain the complicated plan that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had put together back in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daschle Could Be a Boost to Obama's Health-Care Agenda | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...When the London-based journalist decided to write a book on human waste, toilets and the world sanitation crisis, she knew that she'd be the butt of a few jokes around the pub. What she didn't realize - at least not fully - was just how important her subject was. George's new book The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters delves into the taboo subject of bowel evacuation, with tact, sensitivity - and the right amount of style. Reporting on the sewers of London and the slums of New Delhi and the high-tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toilet Tales: Inside the World of Waste | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Question #18. Please specifically describe any affiliation you or your spouse or any member of your immediate family have or have had with any financial, banking, mortgage or insurance institution that is currently the subject of federal government intervention as part of the ongoing economic crisis. This question includes, but is not limited to, the following: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and Washington Mutual.Though the question seems ominous in nature, answering "yes" may not necessarily be a deal breaker. Obama's pick for chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors for Freddie Mac at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Application | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...lesser-known operas from the early 17th and early 18th centuries, like those of Monteverdi and Handel, but performances of works from the mid-to-late 1600s are rare. Thus, the ambition of the HEMS in selecting this somewhat hazardous reprisal is all the more admirable, but it also subjects itself to an intense test of finesse and intelligence. The uniqueness of its subject and the lack of sufficient previous efforts with which to compare it make judgment difficult. Even with these obstacles, though, it was obvious that the production’s attempts at achieving authentic style and presentation?...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: L’Ormindo Laughs and Romances | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...Jacobs says he does not expect a huge shift in recounting residual votes. "The bigger issue is how we handle these absentee ballots [which are the subject of the Franken lawsuit]," he says. Mark Jeranek, who voted for Franken, cast an absentee ballot in Beltrami County, located in northwestern Minnesota, that was rejected because he didn't sign the envelope in which he placed his ballot. The Franken campaign sent him an affidavit that he is considering signing. "I don't want to be a cause for revolution, but at the same time I want my vote to count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleman and Franken: Fighting over the Minnesota Recount | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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