December 2011
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We want to wish all of our Tumblr followers a very...
Watchtimelightbox:
“Mr. President
Your people are dying
People eat from the garbage
Look what is happening in your country
Misery is everywhere
People have nowhere to sleep
Today I speak fearlessly on behalf of the people
Crushed under the boots of injustice”
With these words, Tunisian rapper Hamada Ben Amor, also known as El Général, became one of the loudest voices of the Arab Spring. Recorded in...
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WatchManaging editor Richard Stengel talks with Kurt Andersen, author of our cover story, about the decision to recognize the global protest movements of 2011 in TIME’s Person of the Year issue.
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Shepard Fairey Talks About Creating TIME's Person...
Shepard Fairey’s iconic designs require work by hand and digital rendering, so when faced with creating an image that must illustrate a body of unrest that has spent the year not only protesting on the streets, but online, he’s a perfect fit.
As the artist behind our Person of the Year 2011 cover commemorating this year’s pick, The Protester, Fairey says his cover image is based...
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Longreads: Writer Lev Grossman: My Top 5 Longreads... →
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Lev Grossman writes about books and technology for Time magazine. He’s also the author of the bestselling novels The Magicians and The Magician King.
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• “One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind,” by Adam Fisher, Wired
Why do I never find stories like this? Probably because I’m…
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Before he was passionate about airline reform,...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
In her observations on the creative Coalition’s effort in Massachusetts on behalf of campaign-finance reform [AMERICAN SCENE, Nov. 10], Tamala M. Edwards drew only a partial picture and overemphasized the impact of celebrity. Edwards failed to state that for all the autograph seekers who appeared, many more Massachusetts residents listened thoughtfully to the Creative...
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How TIME Saved 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
“In 1963, I did a documentary on Willie Mays, the world’s best baseball player and one on Charlie Brown, the world’s worst. We sold the Mays documentary, but never sold the Charlie Brown documentary. Three years later, TIME Magazine put the [Peanuts] characters on its cover and we got calls from advertisers and networks asking if we were still thinking of doing an animated show,...
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