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...family's kitchen as they take morning prayer in a silence broken only by the loud ticking of the clock. Esther raises her eyes, Johan says, "Amen," and the children dive wordlessly into their cereal. After the meal, Esther leaves to shepherd the kids on errands, returning briefly to tell Johan to take some time for himself this morning. Alone, he weeps uncontrollably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handicapping the Palme d'Or | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

...Enter to get easy A’s and a kick-ass job after you graduate.” I may not have aced all of my classes, but I am confident that I have grown in wisdom. In high school my mom used to tell me that I had the maturity of an 8-year-old, but now she compares me to 12-year-old. At this rate I may even be allowed to use the oven by the time I graduate. Don’t get me wrong—I care about my grades, and work hard...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: Getting In is the Hardest Part | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...FairPlay has its own ideas about what is and isn't fair. Most people don't even notice DRM--who puts their music on five different computers anyway?--but there's something annoyingly unfair about FairPlay even in the abstract. You paid for the music. Who is Apple to tell you where you can and can't stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Music Piracy | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...right into the ground? The answer is yes. People have been buying and selling music for years without DRM, in a form you may have heard of called the compact disc. CDs have never had DRM attached. Off the record, most executives--on the technology side at least--will tell you that DRM is a dinosaur that's waiting for the asteroid to hit. It's just a matter of when the music industry will stop assuming its customers are all criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Music Piracy | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...predecessor. Particularly in these high-profile speeches, his main objective is to push the intellectual envelope, and prove a point with whatever historical and philosophical means are at his disposal. The Pope's critics, by contrast, warn that Benedict is missing advisers who can help edit his speeches and tell him what he might not want to hear, so he isn't forced to eat his words after the fact. In the 25 months of the papacy, the following five diplomatic incidents and subsequent papal corrections stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict: "What I Meant to Say..." | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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