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Meanwhile, Schapiro has been trying to get a word in edgewise about her plan to fix the SEC. The initial actions were heard Friday in a speech at the Practising Law Institute in Washington. In what Schapiro calls her first two significant moves as chief, she is abolishing the agency's two-year-old failed "penalty pilot" experiment and dismantling a burdensome full-commission "pre-approval" process, which often delayed enforcement efforts "for weeks," she said. The announcements brought applause from the lawyers in attendance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Schapiro Moves Quickly to Shake Up the SEC | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

Following President Barack Obama's groundbreaking success in recruiting and organizing millions of supporters on Twitter and other social sites such as Facebook, Qik, YouTube and Flickr, a growing number of Representatives are tapping into domains that many previously reserved for their grandchildren. "The word Facebook is becoming like a drinking game in our conference," says one senior GOP aide. "We encourage members to sign up, but also encourage them to allow their staff to help them navigate it. We want them to be careful before members begin writing on their constituents' walls." (See the 50 best websites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

Tweets can also be serious. Journalists recently watched the Twitter accounts of McCaskill, Senator John McCain and Maine Senator Susan Collins for any word on the state of negotiations for the Senate stimulus package. "We're not quite at the point where I can cover 535 characters in 140 characters, but the best Twitterers in Congress are the ones who don't use it as yet another venue for tired talking points but give us a first-person look behind the scenes," says Olivier Knox, a reporter for Agence France-Presse covering Congress who has written stories after being tipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...make a wine that was simple and natural." That meant rejecting the common thermovinification technique (which he says homogenizes wines) in favor of a cold carbonic maceration that preserves freshness without added sulfites. His Beaujolais-Villages, with their ample red fruit flavors and light, tickling tannins, epitomize the French word for silky gulpability - gouleyant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revival of Beaujolais | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

Other artists - from a Tunisian folk singer to a classical guitarist - have contributed to some of the tracks, but Ndiaye and his gang define the album's tone. "I can't understand a word Amadou says," Tricky admits. "But when he was rapping, he made me feel like he was saying, 'Can't you see us?' That was his vibe, and that's what I called the album." Tricky's intuition is right: on a track with the working title "Afrique," Ndiaye scream-raps "Mes frères ont souffert, bordel de merde! (My brothers have suffered, goddammit)" over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tricky Taps Into the Sound of the Paris Ghetto | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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