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...persistent reports it was planning to move its U.S. headquarters out of Southern California didn't help. Then came the airing of a horrifying 911 call from a passenger in a Lexus ES 350 in California with a jammed accelerator. Four people were killed in the ensuing crash. "No politician is going to stand up and defend Toyota after that," says Jesse Toprak, vice president of industry trends and insights at TrueCar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Troubles at Toyota | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...interlocutors on Earth, The Family, to that demanded by Adolf Hilter, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, thus legitimizing the latter tyrants. Such untempered comparison is irresponsible, dangerous, and wrong. It leads to such invidious situations as The Family’s accused support for Ugandan politician David Bahati, who is proposing a bill containing the death penalty for HIV-infected people who have sex with someone of the same gender. Although The Family has since distanced itself from this scandal, one of its members could very easily follow its logic to support this bill...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: God and Scrambled Eggs | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...troops spoke to General Fonseka and the way they forcibly dragged him away is a disgrace to the security forces. It is a shameful way to treat your former commander." - Rauf Hakeem, leading Sri Lankan Muslim politician and Fonseka ally, after witnessing Fonseka's arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarath Fonseka | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...prosecutors thought Wilders would wilt in the courtroom, they underestimated his sense of theater. The politician is using the case against him to put Islam on trial, vociferously defending his right to free speech. He suffered a setback on Wednesday, however, when the Amsterdam District Court rejected his demand that the Supreme Court hear the case because he's a member of parliament and then denied his request for 18 witnesses to testify on his behalf - including Bouyeri, who is serving a life sentence for van Gogh's murder. (After he killed the filmmaker, Bouyeri used a knife to stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anti-Muslim Dutch Lawmaker's Trial Tests Freedom of Speech | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...Another proposed witness rejected by the court was Ayatullah Ahmad Jannati, a hard-line Iranian politician who chairs the Guardians Council, which oversees legislation in the country and approves candidates for elections. "The court is denying me a fair trial," Wilders said afterward, adding that he was "angry, disappointed, but ready to fight." (Read "The March to the Far Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anti-Muslim Dutch Lawmaker's Trial Tests Freedom of Speech | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

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