Bryan Martin has been working on his daughters graduation gift since she entered kindergarten. Bryan Martin purchased a gift for his daughter’s high school graduation, which happened earlier this month about thirteen years ago and he somehow kept it hidden this whole time, and his, in his daughter’s words, “moving, touching, nostalgic, […]
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Bolano’s ‘2666’: The Best Book of 2008
There could be nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolao than Bolao himself, which is a shame because he’s dead.
Workplace Bullying: New York Bill Targets Abusive Bosses
There are some very important things they don’t tell you on career day.
Health Lessons from Europe
High infant mortality, low life expectancy, soaring health-care costs — the symptoms are numerous and the diagnosis unmistakable: America’s health-care system is ailing.
Essay: What (If Anything) to Expect from Today’s Philosophers
THERE is an old saying that philosophy bakes no bread.
Nairobi: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours — Introduction
If you’re craving a quick hit of optimism, reading a newsmagazine is probably not the best way to go about finding it. As the life coaches and motivational speakers have been trying to tell us for more than a decade now, a healthy, positive mental outlook requires strict abstinence from current events in all forms
World: KHE SANH: READY TO FIGHT-
TIME Correspondent Don Sider spent several days at Khe Sanh last week ducking incoming shells and observing the unique quality of life in the besieged Marine base. His report: A chill, grey mist hangs over the jungled hills around Khe Sanh and drifts down onto the base's metal run way
Foreign News: Guns for the Huns
One of the unusual features of British public life today is the amount of anti-German feeling now being stirred up. Part of it is political: Nye Bevan and his left-wing Socialists are setting up a hue and cry about “Guns for the Huns”—not bothering, of course, to point out that the Communists have already armed East Germany.
Girth Control: Debate over age and weight
The good news: it is important for the young to stay lean, but a little heft helps people live longer, according to a federal researcher at the Gerontology Research Center in Baltimore.
Interview with Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton
TIME: A Secretary of State and a superstar are kind of an unlikely couple. What brought you two together?