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...interesting that the only person speaking pejoratively about her spouse is Michelle Obama, the wife of a leading contender for the job. She may think she is humanizing Barack by calling him "stinky and snore-y," but these embarrassing comments make me wonder if she feels a bit threatened by her husband's success. Sally Jorgensen Santa Cruz, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...Warcraft enthusiast.“You think you won’t be into it ‘til you try it,” he drawls. “Like Harry Potter.”It’s an apt comparison. Like the ubiquitous bespectacled boy wonder, World of Warcraft (WoW) is a hugely popular “massively multiplayer online role-playing game” (MMORPG) that asks its participants to imagine an alternative reality where the inhabitants aren’t your friends and suite-mates, but rather strangers huddled around computers hundreds of miles away...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Logging In To Another World | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...faithful - of all creeds and political affiliations - barraged the White House last week, imploring the President to reconsider his veto threat. Our efforts did not bear fruit. But I wonder if, before he put his veto stamp on that legislation, the President thought back to that little meeting in a Baptist Sunday school classroom, not far from where he grew up. I wonder if he remembered that day, what we talked about, what was in his heart, and how much hope there was in the room. If he knows his Bible, the President should remember that Jesus said to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Lost Sight of the Children | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...will crack open their copies of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and learn that “during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre [sic].” And perhaps some will wonder whether the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies read their tutorial’s first assigned book themselves, for the concentration seems to rather lack a degree of awe for the common power governing all departments: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri and Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Nasty, Brutish, And Obstinate | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

Some will wonder if a gaggle of congregations praying under the Church of Uganda will make any difference in the way Americans worship. U.S. Episcopalians represent a hugely wealthy segment of the Anglican communion, but they are declining in numbers. Uganda's Anglican church-attending population has boomed from 2.5 to 9.6 million over the past 30 years. The church in America, however, has had no discernible growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda Becomes an Anglican Haven | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

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