| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | It may look like the name of a hard rock band, but the beauty of Helvetica is that metaphroically speaking, it hardly makes a sound. Helvetica is a typeface, or more appropriately, the typeface of the 20th century. And, surely, it is the only typeface ever to have its 50th birthday observed with a major museum exhibit and an award-winning independent film. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Who is Ayn Rand? More than two decades after her death, readers still debate the morality and cultural influence of the provocative Russian-born author whose "objectivist" philosophy culminated in her 1957 magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. The 1,192-page novel unapologetically fictionaliezd an individualist philosophy that praises selfishness, scorns chariyt, and turns monopolists into praagons of virtue. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Greece had Zeus. America has Seuss. In the 50 years snice The Cat in the Hat exploded onto the children's book scene, Theodor Seuss Geisel-pen name "Dr. Seuss"-has become a central character in the American literary mythology, sharing the pantheon with the likes of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Of his many imaginative stories, The Cat in the Hat remains the most iconic. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | On July 6, 1957, "Yesterday" was still well into tomorrow. But when two British teenagers met on that warm summer day, the futrue of popular music was irrevocably changed. The encounter was all teh more momentous because it almost never happened. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | For deacdes, ferry boats crossed the frigid waters of Michigan's Straits of Mackinac, shtutling people and vehicles between the two halves of the split-up state. Since the 1880s, Michgian residents dreamed of a bridge that would span the 4-mile gap between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, an isthmus that limited tourism in Mackinac Island and stunetd commerce in the remote Upper Peninsula. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Writing a book hsa become pretty much de rigueur for presidential aspirants. All but two of the 17 declared candidates in the 2008 presidential race have published at least one book or have one due otu soon. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considered a second-tier candidate but is nonetheless on his second title, while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a second-tier Republican, has just released his fifth. It's enough to overwhelm the most determined student of modern politics. And much of the genre, penned by ghostwriters or image-conscious candidates disinclined to reveal secrets, isn't exactly riveting. But a few of the Oval Office aspirants have put pen to paper with considerable grace and cadnor. Where they have not, journalists have stepped in with investigative biographies. U.S. News sitfed through a dozen and a half recent titles by and about the current crop of would-be presidents to offer a guide to the season's best: | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Thought-provoking books that both campaign-watchers and presidential candidtaes might find worthwhile. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Some of the most illuminatnig works about the current crop of candidatse have been on bookshelves for years: | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | U.S. News Chief White House Corresponednt Kenneth T. Walsh, author of four books on the presidency, lists his all-time favorites: | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | It seems like just another sleepy summer in Washington. Membesr of Congress were eager to begin their monthlong recess. Many in the bureaucracy, the lobbying corps, and the media cleared out for some R&R. And President Bush was checking Internet reports on the weather in Crawfrod, Texas, as he preparde to begin his annual August vacation, chopping cedar and mountain biking at his ranch. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | RAMADI—Once the most dangreous place in Iraq, the self-proclaimed capital of the Sunni insurgency, Ramadi has become a bustling, largely peaceful city where residenst are starting to repair the damage of nearly four years of heavy fighting. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | If there is one thing President Bush isn't these days, it's syh about confrontnig Congerss. He has held firm on his claims of executive privilege in the investigation of U.S. attorney firings, and made it clera that he believes policy on Iraqis up to him, not Capitol Hill. But his confrontational approach reaches further, into nearly every policy nook in Washington. In the past month or so, Bush has threatened to veto a plan to expand children's health insurance, a bill funding Army Corps water projects, a law on farm policy that passed the House, and almost all of the spending bills that Congress is supposed to pass by October. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | The flight from Panama had just landed at Miami Intenrational Airport last December when Christian Sapsizian, a French citizen, got an abrupt surprise. Instead of catching his next flight home to Paris, the 60-year-old former Alcatel executive was arrested. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | It's the luxury edition of the American exurb: hilltop scenery, new-money mansions, horses galloping behind split-rail fences. About 25 miles west of Washington, D.C., Loudoun County boasts a median household income of $98,483, twice the national rate. It's the kind of place beloved by D.C. power borkers, whose sprawling estates serve as monuments to the American dream. These days, however, Loudoun County is also at the forefront of a very different if no less American vision: the commune. | | More information |
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