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...Richard Nixon explain his policies. (He later explained Nixon himself in a historically rich memoir, Before the Fall.) William Safire, who died Sept. 27 at 79, was not just a fighter--he was a champ. He had brio, savvy and insight into human nature. That's why he could write novels: because he was interested in what makes humans do what they do, in motives and twists of fate and unintended consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Safire | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...work, and certainly not from most politicians. "Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person - let's say a young man - will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he has held as long as he can remember," the President said. I'm sure he didn't write those words, but in that one sentence, he accurately and movingly defined the painful confusion that begins most gay lives. He went on: "Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Gay Outreach: All Talk, No Action | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...real ticket prices dropping by half and new routes offering exposure to once provincial cities. But the corollary of viability has been increased frustration, with on-time performance plunging to near record lows. As you might have guessed, "there is no silver bullet" to fix the problem, the authors write. But they posit an array of sensible suggestions that could help curb soaring delays. Among the ideas are congestion pricing, airport privatization and high-speed rail systems as an alternative to flights shorter than 500 miles (routes that carry 31% of all passengers). Let's hope someone's listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Air Travel Is About to Get Worse | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...hear from hundreds of college students every year... who write to us for vegan recipes. But they want them to be easy, and they want them to be delicious,” Holmberg said...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With New Cookbook, PETA Reworks Pita, Other Vegan Foods | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...What happened with Cabaret? Did Sandy Ryerson get to write himself in as Queen Cleopatra after Rachel left or was he forced to pull the plug...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: Recap: "Vitamin D" | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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