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You'd have to be desperate to want a takeover by the Nigerian army. Nigeria's generals plundered the oil-rich country and executed opponents in a series of dictatorships from 1966 to 1999. And yet, in the taxi ranks, sports bars and five-star hotels in Lagos and Abuja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigerians Wonder: Could a Military Coup Help Us? | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

That's just what a Swedish author calling himself J.D. California (real name: Fredrik Colting) tried to do, in a book named 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. But just before his death, the ever-vigilant Salinger sent his lawyers after California and his tiny publisher, Windupbird Publishing, suing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.D. Salinger: "Keep Your Hands Off My Legacy" | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

From now on Salinger would write only about the Glass family. "Zooey" was the story of how a Glass brother, the actor Zooey, tried to illuminate sister Franny about the pros and cons of the material world after she breaks up with her Ivy League boyfriend. In "Raise High the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.D. Salinger Dies: Hermit Crab of American Letters | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

For his part, Boies told TIME that the trial has shown that legal discrimination against gays - in particular rules banning their marriage - starts with simple prejudice, in the form of religion-inspired views about the morality of homosexuality itself. "The Southern Baptist Convention describes homosexuality as an 'abomination,'" Boies told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Marriage Trial Rests, and a Key Ruling Awaits | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

Cooper tried to make a different case, namely that the government's interest in preserving marriage as it has traditionally been understood is not just legitimate, but vital. "The question is, Is this institution designed for these pro-child reasons or is it to produce companionship and personal fulfillment and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Marriage Trial Rests, and a Key Ruling Awaits | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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