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Because the highs can be so electrifying and the defeats so crushing, players often want help contextualizing the season. Their professions depend on victory, but the Vince Lombardi Trophy can signify something greater than a big win. When asked if a Super Bowl ring serves as an idol for the players, Trapp puts his spin on football's Holy Grail: "Every time I think about the Super Bowl, I think about the season. Every time I think about the season, I think about the relationships. And the Super Bowl doesn't even compare to the season and the relationships - because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God and Football: The NFL's Chaplains Give Advice | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...Sachs and others, and told them that while they were welcome to fight his efforts, the political environment was on his side. "In the long run we all need to restore trust in the system," Geithner told the bankers, according to a top aide familiar with the conversation, "People want to see that something's being done." (Read TIME's cover story, "What's Still Wrong with Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geithner Leads a Fresh Charge on Financial Reform | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...want these images to speak across the barriers of cultural mores, linguistic obstacles, and obscure practices,” Quraeshi said at the exhibition opening...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer | Title: Middle Ground | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...scene in London was dying on its feet.” In the same way, the American jazz musician who befriends Gardner, has a completely different syntax that instantly identifies him as a member of the L.A. music scene: “If it’s pop they want, it’s pop I play. R&B? Fine. Car commercials, the walk-on theme for a talk show, I’ll do it. I’m a jazz player only when I’m inside my cubicle.” Ishiguro?...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ishiguro Releases an Accomplished But Mild Collection | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...despite her efforts to inform the Harvard community about Sufism, Quraeshi does not want to be considered an Islamic artist. “It’s a sensitive subject because of all of the horrible things being done in the name of Islam,” she says. “It’s sort of like calling a woman a female artist. You are either an artist...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer | Title: Middle Ground | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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