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...What defines a capable president?,” Cline asked. “It is an interesting contrast to look at TR, and especially his leadership on issues like conservation and the establishment of the national parks, forests, and preserves, and to see a man who just simply acted on his conviction...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Documentarian Burns Lauds National Parks | 10/5/2008 | See Source »

...completely de rigueur for the French to smile smugly over Washington's French-style intervention in the financial markets. But by and large, they're not. For however suddenly the U.S. government has embraced the Gallic tradition of nationalization, the French economy has itself been slowly and surely becoming très américaine. As a result, the impulse to utter "I told you so" is being checked for now by fear that the rot is bound to spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Gloating in France on Finance Crisis | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...liberals whose political ideology had far more in common with today?s Democrats. If McCain feels compelled to call on the ghosts of former presidents to bolster his conservative credentials, he can keep Reagan on the list but if he values historical accuracy, he ought to replace Lincoln and TR with Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. Steven R. Butler, Richardson, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...photographs from the early 1940s show Paris as sunny, airy, bursting with color. Its inhabitants appear carefree, content and refreshingly unaware of their proclivity for looking très chic. It's all very much at odds with the prevailing image of the French capital suffering and smoldering under the yoke of its Nazi occupiers. Indeed, that very dissonance has made the current photo exhibit "Parisians Under the Occupation" one of the city's most controversial cultural events of late. Was life in Nazi-controlled Paris really as idyllic as these pictures suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris Under the Nazis: Happy Days? | 4/22/2008 | See Source »

...startlingly modern, like the Lydian pierced-disk pendant ($58-$330, various sizes and materials) - based on one found in a 6th century B.C. tomb in what is now Turkey. The gilt-bead necklace - the original comes from Iron Age Tréglonou, Brittany - has a definite touch of class ($209). www.museesdefrance.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Like the Real Thing | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

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