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...contributions of Gerald Ford, perhaps one of the most important American Presidents of the 20th century--certainly one of the most decent. Ford deserved to be on TIME's cover. He may not have been flashy or tested well with TV audiences, but he was a President with courage, wisdom, honesty, integrity and compassion--in other words, a leader in whom we could place our trust. What other person could have done the hard but necessary work of leading the country out of, as President Ford himself put it, the long national nightmare of Watergate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 5, 2007 | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...winning converts, however, the missives fall short of being compelling, particularly when they wind up in the inboxes of college students who are active members of left-leaning campus organizations. Alas, that doesn’t keep these kids’ parents from sending them unwelcome bits of political wisdom. Over and over again...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Mom’s Spam | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...What we'll all miss most about Art Buchwald is his wisdom. Yes, he had a gift for describing the human comedy. But at bottom he was a courageous, graceful and insightful man who just happened to be a great raconteur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Art Buchwald | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard students are not the most sexually adventurous bunch. But the conventional wisdom runs that sexual repression takes a biannual backseat for Primal Scream. Many of my friends remarked that the public nudity made them feel as though “we went to a real college...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, Lucy M. Caldwell, Lena Chen, Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, Matthew S. Meisel, and Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Notes On Primal Harvard | 1/17/2007 | See Source »

...head of the Marine Corps has openly questioned the wisdom of the move without an overarching strategy. "We would fully support, I think, as the Joint Chiefs, the idea of putting more troops into Iraq if there is a solid military reason for doing that, if there is something to be gained," Gen. James Conway, who became Commandant of the Marine Corps six weeks ago, said to reporters recently. "We do not believe that just adding numbers for the sake of adding numbers - just thickening the mix - is necessarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skepticism from the Military on an Iraq Surge | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

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