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...same clothes for decades, but all in all he looks pretty good. Sure, Mickey hasn't had a movie in two years (his last one went direct-to-video), but his cheerful face remains one of the most recognizable images in the world, even beating out Santa Claus. Disney threw a big party for the mouse's 75th birthday, so this year's festivities will be comparatively subdued. But TIME has been following the adorable mouse since the beginning, and 80 years is still a big number to us. (Read TIME's 1937 cover story on Walt Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mickey Mouse | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...paid a fraction of the millions of dollars for the painting that Hirano says were spent transporting and restoring it. When it came to bringing it home, he says he and Toshiko explored every possibility of transporting the mural intact, but "even the pros couldn't do it ... I threw up my hands." Eventually they halved each of the original seven sections. The day Hirano returned from Mexico to Tokyo in 2005, Toshiko died. She had orchestrated the mural's return but missed seeing it arrive at Japan's southern port of Kobe by just two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lost Masterpiece, Now Found in Tokyo's Metro | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...yard strike from Pizzotti to junior wideout Matt Luft, the second-longest play of the day for the Crimson.Penn countered once again, moving 79 yards and reaching the Harvard 6-yard line, primarily on the strength of Garton’s mobility, and on third down Garton threw for receiver Kyle Derham in the end zone. Quaker fans cheered what they believed was a touchdown, but the pass was ruled incomplete, and kicker Andrew Samson missed a field goal. It was only Samson’s third miss of the season in 16 attempts, and his first from inside...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Penn Picked Off | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...received a mere 30-day suspension for helping students cheat on a standardized test; one California school board spent $8,000 to fire an instructor who preferred using R-rated movies instead of books; a Florida teacher remained in the classroom for a year despite incidents in which she threw books at her students and demanded they referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tenure | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...These results are disheartening. Mara, who voted "yes" both times, has seen the potential harm of sudden death up close. In last year's NFC championship game, the Green Bay Packers won the overtime toss against the Giants. Although Favre threw an interception that led to a game-winning field goal for New York, Mara sweated it out. If the Packers had won without a New York possession, "I know how I would have felt," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solving the NFL's Overtime Fumble | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

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