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4  Editors Desk

THE CULTURE

BRIEFING

12  LightBox

Bob Hope, the

harbinger of
Hollywoods
activism

Up close and personal

with a lion in Chile

60  Reviews

58  Books

11  Verbatim

Richard Corliss on
the Stephen Hawking
biopic; Norwegian
duo Ryksopps latest
(and nal) LP

14  World

Merkel and Cameron

clash over the E.U.s
future; Shiites
observe Ashura

62  Tuned In

16  Spotlight

Unlocking spaces
mysteries

James Poniewozik
on Lisa Kudrows
Comeback

18  Tech

64  Pop Chart

Startups for seniors

Quick Talk with

Communitys Gillian
Jacobs; a roundup of
the weirdest college
classes

20  Money

The dollars strength

A supporter celebrates Mitch McConnells re-election at the Louisville Marriott

East Hotel on Nov. 4. Photograph by Christopher MorrisVII for Time

22  Small Business

A soaring demand for

cider
24  Milestones

Brittany Maynard;
Car Talks Tom
Magliozzi
COMMENTARY

26  Viewpoint

Reihan Salam on the

GOPs road to 2016
30  In the Arena

on the cover:
Illustration for Time
by Lon Tweeten.
Mitch McConnell
photo reference: Drew
Angerer/Getty Images

Mitchs Majority
What the Republicans midterm
victory means for the
future of the party
by David Von Drehle
32

Cult of One
Chinas President Xi Jinping is
putting himself at the center of his
countrys global ambitions
by Hannah Beech

66  The Awesome
Column

Joel Stein wonders

about trading kids
68  10 Questions

English comedian
John Cleese

40

Bob Hope,
page 58

46 Life After War

A look at the road to recovery for the
veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
by Karl Vick and Olivia B. Waxman;
photographs by James Nachtwey

Our cover was

inspired by
Shepard Faireys
2008 Obama poster

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Veterans at Home
every soldier has a story, though
that doesnt mean it always gets told.
Some cant stand to talk about what
they did or saw or suffered; others
are like former Marine captain Seth
Moulton, just elected to Congress
from Massachusetts, who never even told his parents how he won two medals for courage under
re. There is a healthy disrespect among veterans
who served on the front lines for people who walk
around telling war stories, he told the Boston Globe.
But what about the stories
that follow? The ones after the
ghting is over, about what helps,
what heals, what happens next?
In anticipation of Veterans Day,
a Time team led by editor Dan
Macsai has worked with Facebook, Instagram, photo collective
everydayusa and veterans groups
like Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans
of America to capture a wide
range of stories and images of the
countrys vets. In recent weeks,
photo editor Phil Bicker has curated galleries by photographers
including Nina Berman and Peter
van Agtmael, and reporter Olivia
B. Waxman has posted as told to
stories like Yes, I Really Catch Pythons to Treat
My PTSD, by former Marine corporal Jorge Martinez. Out in the Everglades, its almost impossible
to hear loud noises, he says. Its very peaceful,
almost like meditation. I have a mission to accomplish, and that mission is to catch a python. I stay
alert, always vigilant, something that comes natural now after being trained in the military.
We hear from Angela Madsen, a 54-year-old
former Marine and grandmother of ve, who is
the rst paraplegic woman to row across the Atlantic and Indian oceans. I like rowing because
I dont do it in a wheelchair, she says. Nobody
even knows Im different when they see me in a
boat on the water. Her longest trip took 67 days.
Those rows are a lot like deployment, she says.
Im away from my family for a long period of

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THE STORY

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master sergeant we
prole on page 46,
nished his rst
New York City
Marathon on Nov. 2
despite breaking his
prosthetic legs twice.

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and physically uncomfortable ... Its like living in
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honor, courage and commitment.
Sometimes adjustment and recovery take the
form of service, especially to other veterans; sometimes they take the form of art. Former Marine Roman Baca served in Fallujah from 2005 to 2006; hes
now the artistic director of Exit12 Dance Company
in New York City, which performs ballets inspired
by the military experience. Even in a war zone, a
soldier can forget about the constant threat of danger while watching a sunset over
the desert or seeing children play
like all children do on the streets
we patrolled, he says. Performing a ballet based on those scenes
opened my eyes to a new way
that I could engage society after
being separated by experiences of
war. There has been some healing
in creating these ballets.
The hard work of healing, of
course, starts at places like Walter
Reed National Military Medical
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this weeks photo essay. The accompanying text was written by
Karl Vick, our former Jerusalem
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Washington Post. One gratifying thing was learning that the high-tech part that is working so well
on physical wounds, especially in adaptive sports,
turns out to dovetail with the approaches that are
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The wolf was

huffing and
puffing...

What You Said About ...

COSMIC CINEMA

Jeffrey Klugers
Nov. 10 cover story
on the science of
the lm Interstellar
brought out enthusiastic fans of
both elds. I am
certain that Dr. Kip
Thorne [the consultant on the lm]
would advise you that gravity sufcient to slow time by a factor of 60,000
(one hour = seven years) would instantly crush the crew, or rather the gravity
gradient would rip them apart, wrote
engineering consultant Bill Alston of
San Jose, Calif., who added, Nevertheless, Ill be rst in line to see the
movie. Jerry Mobley of St. Cloud, Fla.,
meanwhile, praised Klugers piece:
I cant wait to see Interstellar based on
a beautifully written introduction by
Jeffrey Kluger. Thank you, thank you,
thank you.

An Ideas
piece on Time.com by Obama
digital guru Joe Rospars pleaded
with Democrats to stop relying on a stale model of nearly
campy, scary, negative ads in
TV advertising and email
fundraising efforts.
Covered by the Hill and
other media, Rospars

DEMOCRATIC ELECTION ADS

POLITICAL PERKS @ZekeJMiller cracks

the code on one of best bennies federal

employees get, read journalist Robert
Carusos tweet about Millers exclusive
story on Obama ofcials cut-rate vacations at the Brinkerhoff lodge in Grand
Teton National Park. While Perks and
Recreation drew praise on Twitter,
some readers found the controversy
overblown. Wow, Time does a twopage expos on a cabin for government
ofcials that is being used by government ofcials, wrote Dave Wilson of
Tucson, Ariz. Now maybe Time can redirect its investigative instincts to
Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal
and other real abuses.
SPACESHIPTWO

Jeffrey Klugers
Ideas essay in
the aftermath
of the crash of
Virgin Galactics
SpaceShipTwoin which Kluger criticized Virgin founder Richard Bransons
amateur space effortgenerated colorful conversation. For Slate, Phil Plait
wrote, I was frankly disappointed
with it ... Branson hired qualied
people ... If a Virgin Atlantic plane
crashed, would we immediately blame
Branson for it? On Twitter, as Kluger
observed in a follow-up piece, the criticism was at times profane. But others
found Klugers argument persuasive.
I think many of the commenters are
missing the point. At no point did
Mr. Kluger express opposition to
the idea of commercial spaceight,
wrote southmost on Time.com. Suborbital ight is not real spaceight.
Calling them the same thing
is like saying that you can y
because you jumped off a
high-diving platform.

S PA C E S H I P T W O : G E T T Y I M A G E S; R O S PA R S : E L I Z A B E T H L I P P M A N

REAGANOMICS Joe Kleins article on

what to watch for in the midterm elections elicited passionate defenses of
Ronald Reagan. Kleins comment that
Reagans tax cuts blew a giant hole
in tax revenue and that Fed Chair
Paul Volcker worked his magic to revitalize the economy led David Steele of
Leander, Texas, to write, To state that
revenues fell due to Reagans tax cuts
and then were rescued by Paul Volckers
interest rate is simply borderline insanity. In fact, it was Volckers federal funds
rate of 20% that was most contributory
to choking off business activity, making money extraordinarily expensive to
borrow, and resulting in the recession
of 198182.

piece struck a chord with readers.

Thank you! wrote zieglerisabelle5
on Time.com. As a communications
consultant who also works with a local
Democratic Party, I agree their electronic mail campaigns are deadly and selfdefeating. Nobody likes to be played.

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Lincoln

21

Sales surged 25%

in October following
an ad campaign
featuring Matthew
McConaughey

Number of inches of snow

(53 cm) that fell in Cary, Maine,
on Nov. 2, part of a record-early
snowfall that hit New England

B R A N S O N , E R N S T, P O R O S H E N K O, C O O K : G E T T Y I M A G E S; H O D G E S : A B A C A U S A ; I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y B R O W N B I R D D E S I G N F O R T I M E (2)

GOOD WEEK

There is no
way I would ask
others to go
on a Virgin Galactic
ight if I didnt feel
it was safe enough
for myself.

BAD WEEK

RICHARD BRANSON, Virgin

Galactic founder, saying he will still
be the rst passenger on his
companys commercial spaceight
after a test-ight crash on Oct. 31
killed one pilot and injured another

The U.S. ned the

carmakers a total
$100 million for
misrepresenting
gas mileage

THE WEEK
REPUBLICANS WON
THE U.S. SENATE

We are
going to
make em
squeal!
JONI ERNST, Republican Senator-elect

from Iowa, celebrating her Nov. 4 win;

she had famously aired an ad that recalled
her time castrating hogs on a farm

Kia and
Hyundai

1.29
million

Number of copies that

Taylor Swifts new album
sold in its rst week
of release, the biggest
release since 2002

Its more than an insult. Its hate.

BETSY HODGES, Minneapolis mayor, protesting against the Washington Redskins name for being offensive to Native
Americans; she was one of more than 3,000 people who gathered before the teams game against the Minnesota Vikings

A farce that is
being conducted
under the threat of
tanks and guns.
PETRO POROSHENKO, Ukraines President, describing

the elections held on Nov. 2 by pro-Russian separatists

in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk

time November 17, 2014

380
Number of pounds
(172 kg) lost by a
Michigan couple who
married Nov. 3 after
meeting at a weightloss support group

I consider being
gay among the
greatest gifts God
has given me.
TIM COOK, Apple CEO, openly

discussing his sexuality for

the rst time in an essay in
Bloomberg Businessweek

Sources: AP (3); Bloomberg (2); Bloomberg Businessweek;

CNN, Minneapolis StarTribune; Reuters (2)

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A lion lords it over the cage-enclosed
passenger compartment of a vehicle at
the Safari Lion Zoo in Rancagua, Chile.
The cats are lured up by a well-placed
piece of meat, while visitors observe
them from below.
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World
Merkel Draws a
Red Line for
Europes Restive
Right Wing
BY CATHERINE MAYER/LONDON

Consistency is one of German

Chancellor Angela Merkels dening characteristics. A devotion to
preserving the European Union is
another. For many Germans, the
European project is not just about
creating an internal market of
28 countries or pooling inuence
to better match the muscle of the
U.S. or China. The union is also a
guarantor of hard-won peace after the two world wars that devastated Europe.
So the news on Nov. 2 that
Merkel had rmly rebuffed attempts by British Prime Minister
David Cameron to cap the number

of E.U. citizens moving to the

U.K., saying she would sooner let
Britain exit the union, shows that
the European crisis has arrived at
an existential moment. To Merkel,
raised under East German communism, the E.U. represents yet another core value: freedom. Britain
is a key member of the bloc, with
the third largest economy after
Germany and France and a sizable
military. Yet the German leader
would rather let Britain leave the
E.U. than compromise the freedom
of Europeans to live and work anywhere within it.
That principle is not under attack just in the U.K. The economic
travails of the euro zone have increased unemployment and driven
waves of migration within the
union, fueling the rise of anti-E.U.
parties across Europe. Camerons
threat serves these parties well,

allowing them to claim the British leader as an ally in their ght

against the E.U. I hope England
leaves, said one commenter on the
Facebook page of Germanys small
but growing anti-immigration,
anti-E.U. party Alternative fr
Deutschland. It would be the best
thing that could happen to us and
to Britons, replied another.
In France, Marine Le Pen, leader
of the far-right National Front
party, reacted ercely to Merkels
line in the sand. We arent free
anymore to decide our immigration policy, and the example of
Mr. Cameron has recently proved
that, she tweeted on Nov. 4. A
recent poll suggested that Le Pen,
once a fringe candidate, could take
the presidency from Franois Hollande in 2017.
Cameron must face his electorate sooner, in May. He has promised an in-out referendum on E.U.
membership, if his Conservative
Party returns to power. He has
said hell recommend a breach
with Europe unless he can wrest
concessions from the E.U. on immigration and the economy. This
isnt an outcome Merkel wants, so
despite her rebuff to Cameron, she
will look for compromises. But her
red lines are clear and will be consistent. So, too, are the demands
of Europes resurgent populists.
What that means for the future of
the E.U. remains to be seen.

POLL

HOW BRIGHT
IS YOUR
FUTURE?
The Pew
Research
Center asked
people in 33
countries if they
believed their
lives would
improve in ve
years. Heres
a sampling of
who said yes:

81%

Bangladesh

78%

Senegal

72%

Brazil

Cameron, Hollande and Merkel at a

World War I centennial event in June
38%
NIGERIA

I have long ago

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ABUBAKAR SHEKAU, leader of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram,

Jordan

29%

Poland

in a video released on Oct. 31 addressing the fate of the 200-plus schoolgirls

who were kidnapped in April, after government ofcials suggested the
girls would be released soon; Shekau also denied agreeing to a cease-re
with the government

14

By Noah Rayman

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DIPLOMACY
U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry
will meet with his
Iranian counterpart,
Mohammad Javad
Zarif, in Oman on
Nov. 9 to work on a
deal over the future
of Tehrans nuclear
program in time for
a looming Nov. 24
deadline.

In Memoriam

HUMAN RIGHTS

INDIA

A Shiite Muslim boy agellates himself during a procession on the day of Ashura in New Delhi on Nov. 4. Millions
of Shiites around the world commemorate the slaying of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, during
the 7th century Battle of Karbala. A minority mark the day by beating themselves bloody with chains, while others weep
in mosques, host re-enactments of the battle or participate in blood drives. Photograph by Bernat ArmangueAP

EXPLAINER

EUROPE

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President Blaise
Compaor
resigned on
Oct. 31, after
his attempt to
alter the West
African countrys
constitution to
extend his 27-year
rule sparked
violent protests.
The popular
revolution was
quickly overtaken
by the countrys
military, however,
leaving Burkina
Fasos future
unclear.

Black Spring
The revolution was
led by opposition
activists like local
rapper Smockey
and was dubbed
the Black Spring by
demonstrators, after
the Arab Spring
pro-democracy
movements that
toppled longtime
authoritarian
leaders in 2011.

Military rule
On Nov. 1, the army
stepped in, installing
a top military ofcer,
Isaac Zida, as
interim President.
Under pressure from
protesters and the
African Union, Zida
pledged on Nov. 3
to eventually cede
power to a civilian
government, but he
didnt say when.

Regional ripples
The developments
in Burkina Faso
are likely to be
closely watched by
Benins President
Thomas Yayi Boni
and Rwandas
Paul Kagame amid
speculation that
they might try to
extend their rule as
their democratic
terms expire.

Eight Egyptian men

were jailed for three
years on charges of
spreading indecent
images and inciting
debauchery after a
video surfaced
allegedly showing
them at a gaymarriage ceremony.

421
MILLION

Decline in the bird

population across 25
countries over 30
years, according to a
study published in the
science journal
Ecology
Letters.
Common
species like
sparrows and
larks have seen
the greatest dips
in population.

MONUMENTS
Construction is set
to begin on a new
presidential palace
in La Paz, Bolivia,
after President Evo
Morales, who was reelected last month,
unveiled designs
for a $36 million
complex.

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things rough of late. The explosion
of an unmanned Antares rocket and
the fatal crash of Richard Bransons
SpaceShipTwo serve as painful reminders of what can go wrong when
you take on the cosmos.
But things can go quietly, elegantly right too. On Nov. 12, the European Space Agency plans to land a
research vessel on a comet in a rstof-its-kind maneuver. The mission,
10 years in the making, has already
provided unprecedented insights
into the chemistry of these cosmic
iceballs. The lander could offer clues
to the origins of the solar system.
Comets are thought of as the
bones of the ancient solar system,
with their makeup preserved in a
deep freeze because they spend so
much time far from the sun. Comet
Churyumov-Gerasimenko, or 67P,
comes from the Kuiper Belt, a vast
band of icy objects beyond the orbit
of Neptune.
The ESAs Rosetta spacecraft,
which is ying alongside 67P, has already taken several readings of its
gases, but the fun will start when
the ship ejects the lander, called Philae, which will fall gently to the
comet because of its light gravity.
Once on the surface, Philae will take
measurements that could reveal the
conditions that prevailed in the universe not long after the Big Bang.
Philae will operate at full capacity for just a few days. But for the
next year, Rosetta will continue its
tandem ight with 67P, radioing
back what it can before the tiny
world returns to the distant solar
system.

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year, observing changes on its
surface and in its atmosphere
as the comet approaches the
sun. Even at the speed of light,
a transmission to Earth takes
about 30 minutes to arrive.

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The 46-ft.
solar panels
always face
the sun

A monitor
studies the
magnetic eld
and solar wind

Ovens
analyze
comet
material

Solar cells
gather weak
sunlight to
power the
craft after
the main
battery dies

When theyre
on opposite
sides of
the comet,
Rosetta and
Philae send
each other
radio signals
to map 67Ps
internal
structure

Seismographs
in Philaes feet
detect activity
in 67Ps core as
gas escapes

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Closest approach
to sun
DECEMBER 2015

Mission end

Earth

Mercury
Venus

The little lander

is smaller than
a person

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Earth three times
and Mars once; the
planets gravity had
a slingshot effect,
speeding up the ship
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reach the comet.

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system, it could tell us something about life on Earth. Comets
may have carried water, ice and organic chemicals to our planet;
analyses of 67Ps ice might help strengthen that theory.

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BY KATY STEINMETZ

18

were intrusive, things like video

cameras. This was the right kind of
compromise.
Its also the type of compromise
that wasnt available until last
year. Lively, a San Franciscobased
startup about to begin shipping
a smart watch for seniors, is one
of many new companies turning their attention to the over-65
crowd, an exploding demographic
with plenty of problems for innovators to solve. In the blink of
an eye, weve had the doubling of
human life spans, says Ken Smith,
a director at the Stanford Center
on Longevity. By 2032, he adds,
Americans over age 65 will outnumber those under age 15, which
means that elders will be short on
caregiversnot to mention that
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Nearly 90% of those over age 65

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I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y P E T E R A R K L E F O R T I M E

in san franciscos north beach

neighborhood, Dorothy and Bill
Dworsky are living out their golden years amid famed Italian restaurants, strip clubs and a bunch
of cellular signals. The latter are
emitted by Lively, a monitoring
system in their apartment that
alerts their son Phil if their activity
pattern seems abnormal. Small,
white sensors attached to such
things as their pillboxes and refrigerator capture enough of their
movement to assure Phil theyre
eating regularly and taking their
medicationswithout having
to move them next door (to what
79-year-old Dorothy and 81-yearold Bill say is a far too boring
residential neighborhood). I was
looking for something that would
respect what my parents wanted to
do: stay in their home, Phil says.
But a lot of the things available

SAFE

Livelys smart
watch is an
alternative to
emergencybutton necklaces
and has
features like pill
reminders

say they want to remain at home as

long as possible, and many companies are trying to make it easier
or more pleasantfor them to live
on their own. This summer a small
company called Stitch launched a
simple social network for seniors
seeking companionship, trying to
eliminate the loneliness that can
lead to poor health. The company
employs identity checks and opt-in
messaging to protect users from
fraudsters who trawl sites like
Match.com.
Other companies are trying
to make virtual connections and
checkups easier. In September,
Boston-based Oscar Tech launched
two apps. Grandma downloads one
of them, Oscar Senior, onto a tablet,
and it condenses her operating
system into a few basic functions
like making video calls, and her
grandson downloads the other,
Oscar Junior, which allows him
to manage her device remotely.
Bay Area startup True Link Financial is offering a replacement for
Grandmas checkbook, a common
target of swindlers. Its Visa debit
card allows an older persons child
or caregiver to set limitations or
get text-message alerts about suspicious activities, such as a $1,000
payment to QVC or a hefty cash
withdrawal.
One reason tech companies
have been slow to target older
consumers needs is that entrepreneurs are often young and
tend to solve problems they know
rsthand. In some ways it is seen
as a less sexy space, says Katy
Fike, who runs startup accelerator Aging2.0. But she believes new
sensor technology, the growing
Internet of Things and awareness
of how quickly the older population is expanding will push more
disrupters into the space.
For now, the Dworskys are just
glad to have one more tool between
them and a conversation about
leaving their neighborhood. We
just like to do things on our own,

Dorothy says. And we can.

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ever since the 200809 financial

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economy sank into recession, so too did
condence that the greenback could
maintain its long-held position as the
worlds premier reserve currency. In Beijing, Moscow and elsewhere, policymakers railed against the dollar-dominated
global nancial system as detrimental
to world stability and vowed to nd a
replacement. Central bankers in the
emerging world complained that the
primacy of the dollar allowed American
economic activity to send shock waves
through the global economy, roiling
their own markets and currencies.
But here we are, six years after the
crisis, and the dollar is showing just how
almighty it actually is. The dollar index,
which measures its value against other
currencies, recently reached a four-year
high. And the policymakers who bitterly
criticized the dollar show little real interest in dumping it. The amount of U.S.
Treasury securities held by China, for instance, stands at $1.27 trillion, 75% more
than in 2008.
A stronger dollar makes imported
goods and foreign travel cheaper for
many Americans. But because it makes
U.S. exports more expensive abroad, it
can also ding corporate prots.
The buoyancy of the greenback reects
the fact that the U.S. is a rare bright spot
among the worlds major economies.
American GDP in the third quarter grew
an annualized 3.5%far higher than
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Michigans Virtue Cider is doubling its production this year

Cider House Rules Small-batch cider producers

want to take on the beer establishment

BY SAM FRIZELL

22

12 months, according to Nielsen, a nearly

400% increase from two years ago. The
beverage is in 2014 what craft beer was
in 1990: still niche, but ripe for mass consumption. When I got into beer in 1988,
nobody drank craft beer either, says Hall.
Cider was once the American alcohol
of choice, particularly in the Northeast,
where it was too cold to grow barley to
produce beer. Most colonial settlers drank
cider daily and used gallons of it as currency. But beer gained dominance with
the rush of European immigrants to the
cities in the 19th century, and Prohibition

Sales of cider
in the U.S. this
year are up
nearly 400%
from 2012

time November 17, 2014

VIRTUE CIDER: GR A N T K ES SLER; CUP: GE T T Y IM AGES

its apple-pressing season in michigan, and Greg Halls cidery in Fennville

is lled with an earthy smell somewhere
between an orchard and a wet bag of
apples. Apples delivered by farmers across
the state are being chopped, mushed and
pressed into juice by half a dozen bearded
men in plaid. Halls team then either
pitches the juice with yeast or ferments
it in wooden barrels. The nal product,
marketed as Virtue Cider since 2012, is
sent to bars and restaurants nationwide.
This year, Hall says, hell make 240,000
gallons, twice as much as he did in 2013.
Its the right time to be in the cidery
business. (Cidery is the industrys shorthand for a cidermaking operation.) Demand for the beverage has soared, thanks
in part to the buy-local movement and
Americans increasingly eclectic palates.
The gluten-free trend is also helping turn
people from beer to alcoholic cider, say industry experts. Americans bought some
$360 million worth of cider over the past

nearly wiped out cider production. Droves

of farmers took axes to their surplus apple
trees. But recent interest in niche brews
has spurred a cider renaissance. Theres a
lot of room for growth for cider, and a lot of
it is going to be on the local side, says Ben
Watson, author of Cider, Hard and Sweet.
Hall stumbled on hard cider by accident. As the brewmaster of his familys
successful craft brewery, Goose Island, he
was taste-testing beers in England in 2000
when he and some colleagues wandered
into a cider festival in the northern city
of York. Imbibing English cider at a dingy
pub for the rst time, Hall was hooked.
Some were dry and tart, some were
scrumpy, unltered, rich, barmy, he says.
We were blown away. His mission: to
bring the drink to cider-ignorant Americans. In 2011, the year Budweiser bought
Goose Island, Hall founded his cider operation in Michigan.
Hall is far from the only one moving to
cider. Some of the fastest-growing small
cider brands include Wandering Aengus,
based in Salem, Ore.; Sonoma Cider, based
in Healdsburg, Calif; and Austin Eastciders, based in Texas. Connoisseurs say cider
is more like wine than beer. (One exception: cider has an alcohol content of about
5%, similar to that of beer but half that of
wine.) Really, it shares nearly everything
with wine and very little with beer, says
Hall. What it shares with beer is how
its dispensed out of a keg. That, and the
manner of its growth: local producers
are leading the way. The revival of craft
beer is pulling cider along with it, and big
beer brewers like Miller, Boston Beer and
Anheuser-Busch are quickly adding cider
to their lineups. In 2010 there were fewer
than 50 cider brands. Today there are 130.
Cider will have to overcome its reputation as a watered-down alternative if it
is to become more widespread. That has
led producers to take at least one page
from beers book: tilting their marketing
toward men. A commercial for Angry
Orchard, which is owned by the Boston
Beer Co., features a rugged farmer and the
heavy blues riffs of a Viagra commercial,
for example. The question now is, Will
men swap their suds for cider on Super
Bowl Sunday? Those same guys have no
problem drinking diet beer, says Hall.

So I think so.

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Milestones
OPENED

DIED

One World Trade

Center, to its rst
tenant, Cond Nast.
The 1,776-ft. (541 m)
building stands steps
away from the site
of the north tower,
which fell on 9/11.

Tom Magliozzi

DIED

Thomas Menino, 71,

Bostons longestserving mayor (from
1993 to 2014).
Known for his
warm rapport and
hands-on approach
to problems, he left
ofce with an 82%
approval rating.
WON

Maynard and her husband Dan Diaz at the Grand Canyon

Brittany Maynard

Death with dignity advocate

Few of us know when our last day is approaching. But Brittany Maynard
knew. In fact, she chose it.
Maynard, 29, ingested prescribed barbiturates to end her life on Nov. 1,
a date she publicly decided on as the day she would die rather than submit
to the deteriorating effects of the terminal brain cancer shed been diagnosed with in January. Maynard moved from California to Oregon to take
advantage of the states so-called death with dignity law, which allows
physicians to prescribe life-ending medication for terminally ill patients.
Similar laws exist in just two other states. (Courts allow it in two more.)
In her nal weeks, Maynarda former teacherbecame a prominent
and vocal advocate for aid in dying, fundamentally shifting its image away
from the days of Jack Kevorkian, the controversial Michigan doctor who
participated in dozens of physician-assisted suicides in the 1990s. As the
condent, sunny face of the death with dignity movement, Maynard
worked to increase support for end-of-life treatment through videos in
which she described her worsening disease. The images she released in her
nal weeks projected not death, but life: a young woman enjoying time
with her family, visiting the places shed always dreamed of seeingeven
as aid-in-dying opponents appealed for Maynard to reconsider her decision.
She did not. Maynard died in her bed in Portland, Ore., with her family
at her sidea nal moment she had chosen weeks ago. josh sanburn
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SET

Two records for

high-wire walking,
by daredevil Nik
Wallenda in Chicago.
He walked the
highest incline on
a tightrope and the
highest blindfolded
walk, in two separate
stunts.
RELE ASED

By the U.N., its

most urgent climatechange report to
date, warning that
failure to eliminate
greenhouse-gas
emissions by 2100
could result in
severe, pervasive
and irreversible
consequences.

By Peter Sagal

I met Tom Magliozzi along with

his brother Ray for the rst time
at a public-radio convention in
Orlando in 2000, when they had
been persuaded to leave their
comfortable homes in their
fair city (Cambridge, Mah)
with the promise of a pool to
sit next to and the obligation
to do nothing. I said something
that made them both laugh
uproariously, and felt cocky for
a second until I realized that
everything made them laugh
uproariously.
That was Toms great gift.
All that raucous, distinctive
laughterwho knew you could
laugh with a Boston accent?
was genuine. Whether Tom,
who died on Nov. 3 at age 77,
was laughing at his brother or
a caller with a car problem or
his own silly jokes, his pleasure
was too immense to be kept
private. Everybody knows
that their radio show Car Talk
wasnt about cars. It was about
Tommy Magliozzi and his little
brother Ray as they continued
their lifelong refusal to take
each other, themselves or
anything else seriously.
Tom was opinionated,
passionate and occasionally
profane but very much the man
he seemed to be on the air. He
leaves millions of listeners he
persuadedif only for an hour
a weekto just relax and enjoy
themselves as much as he did.
Sagal is the host of NPRs news-quiz
show Wait, Wait ... Dont Tell Me!

DIED

Bernard Mayes, 85,

founder of the rst
U.S. suicide hotline,
in San Francisco. He
was also the original
chairman of National
Public Radio.

Tom, right, and his brother Ray

time November 17, 2014

M AY N A R D : T H E B R I T TA N Y F U N D/A P ; M A G L I O Z Z I : L A N E T U R N E R G E T T Y I M A G E S; K I P S A N G : J E W E L S A M A D A F P/G E T T Y I M A G E S

DIED

The New York City

Marathon, by two
Kenyan
runners,
Wilson
Kipsang
and Mary
Keitany.
Tennis star
Caroline
Wozniacki
also
completed
the race.

Car Talk host

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Reihan Salam

The Other Glittering Prize

Can Republicans agree on a leader

to take back the White House?
its going to be hard for republicans to restrain their enthusiasm
after their breathtaking victories
on Nov. 4 in the Senate, the House
and state capitols across the country.
But they should. If weve learned anything about
American politics over the past several years, it is
that the electorate is far friendlier to Democrats
in presidential years than it is in midterms, which
is why the GOP triumph in 2010 was quickly followed by deep disappointment in 2012. At the risk
of taking away the punch bowl too soon, GOP victories in states like Colorado and North Carolina
were narrower than they should have been, considering that the electorates in those states will
be younger and less white in two years, which
will make them less hospitable terrain. Ed Gillespies near victory in Virginia was a welcome
surprise. Yet Virginia is a state that Republicans
ought to have in the bag in presidential years,
and they dont.

26

1
The number of
times a Republican
presidential
candidate has won
the popular vote
since 1992

MORE THAN 30
The number of
states Rand Paul
has visited in the
past two years to
stump for allies
or raise money for
his party

nd finally we have ted cruz and marco

Rubio, junior Senators from Texas and Florida, respectively. Though Cruz and Rubio
both came to ofce as Tea Party stalwarts, theyve
developed very different proles. Cruz presents
himself as the uncompromising defender of smallgovernment conservatism who is willing to risk
a federal shutdown or default in defense of his
ironclad principles. Rubio, in contrast, is emerging
as the candidate of middle-class aspiration, with
a focus on reforming failing government institutions to tackle wage stagnation and the barriers to
upward mobility.
Watch these two young Senators to see which
path the GOP will take.

Salam is the executive editor of National Review

time November 17, 2014

G E T T Y I M A G E S (2)

o win the white house, republicans will

need a presidential candidate who understands how the country has changed since the
Bush era and who offers a welcome contrast to the
aging Clinton dynasty. But who will it be?
If Scott Walker had failed in his bid for reelection as governor of Wisconsin, hed have
instantly become a historical footnote. Instead,
conservatives cheered as he won his third statewide election in four years. The case for Walker is
that hes demonstrated that he can ght and win
against entrenched liberal interest groups and that
his unpretentious, everyman style will play well in
the all-important upper Midwest. The case against
him is that in a dangerous world, the former county
executive doesnt have the experience or the knowhow to be Commander in Chief.
Good news for Walker is, alas, bad news for
Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor once considered the most formidable 2016 GOP contender.
The Christie brand has lost much of its luster since
the trumped-up Bridgegate imbroglio, though
the governor is still a great talent. Christies pitch
is not all that different from Walkers: Both men
have tangled with powerful public-worker unions.
Both are unapologetic conservatives whove won in
blue states. The difference is that Christie is seen
unfairlyas closer to President Obama than any

BY THE
NUMBERS

Republican should be, and that perception will be

difcult to overcome.
Something similar is true of Jeb Bush, the
would-be white knight of the GOP establishment.
Had the midterms been a disaster for the GOP, the
case for Jeb would have been much stronger: once
again, Republicans would need to turn to the Bush
family to unite a party in disarray. The GOPs strong
showing instead suggests that a new generation is
ready to take the helm.
One candidate who denitely got a boost from
the midterms is Rand Paul, the junior Senator from
Kentucky, who played a crucial role in sparing Republican leader Mitch McConnell from an ignominious defeat. Though McConnell opposed Paul
in the 2010 GOP Senate primary, theyve developed
a strong working relationship as Paul has lent his
Establishment colleague some of the young libertarian rebrands who fueled his come-from-behind
victory. McConnell ran one of the most socialmedia-savvy campaigns in the country, a preview
of whats to come from a Paul presidential campaign. Rand Paul often takes positionson mass
surveillance, on drone strikes, on the war on drugs,
on the size of governmentat odds with those of
mainstream Republicans. Yet hes also developed
an ability to soften some of his more hard-edged
stances for public consumption. Moreover, GOP
successes in gubernatorial races in deep-blue states
like Massachusetts and Maryland lend credence to
his argument that the GOP needs to welcome socially liberal voters.

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Joe Klein

Is This Her Moment?

To win, Hillary Clinton will need to appear

fresh, aggressive and optimistic
on the sunday before the 2014 election, a visionperhaps a fantasyof
the future of the Democratic Party
was on display at a get-out-the-vote
rally in Nashua, N.H. The rst speaker
was Ray Buckley, chairman of the state party. Every
other speaker, and there were lots, was a woman.
There were two female candidates for state senate from the Nashua area. There was one of New
Hampshires two (out of two) female members of
Congress. There was Maggie Hassan, the incumbent governor. There was Jeanne Shaheen, a former
governor locked in a tight race for another term in
the U.S. Senate. Hillary Clinton was there tooat
the last rally of 45 campaign stops she made for
Democratic candidates during the 2014 campaign.
New Hampshire has always been a magic place
for the Clintons. In 1992, Bill Clintons second-place
nish gave him new life amid the Gennifer Flowers and draft-evasion scandals. In 2008, crushed by
Barack Obama in Iowa, Hillary Clinton almost shed
a frustrated tear on the day before the primary, then
won, narrowly, keeping her candidacy alive. You
lifted me up, gave me my voice back, she told the
Nashua crowd. You taught me so much about grit
and determination. A big Ready for Hillary truck
was in the parking lot. It seemed the 2016 campaign
had begun.

FORECAST
FOR 2016

THEN
Some 59% of
registered voters
held positive views
of Hillary Clinton in
February 2009,
when she was
conrmed as
Secretary of State.
Only 22% held
negative views.

MORE RECENTLY
In September, only
43% of registered
voters held positive
views of Clinton,
while some
41% viewed her
negatively.

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few days later, 4 out of 5 of the female

candidates onstage in Nashua won re-election,
but it was an empty victory, since Democrats
were crushed across the country. No doubt, the Republican sweep can be attributed to the unloved
Obama, and to the fact that Presidents usually fare
badly in their sixth-year election, and to the states
in play, which favored the Republicans. But the
Democratic candidates were weak and inept; they
seemed defensive, reexive, played out. They pretty
much limited themselves to womens issues, and
those were clearly not enough to convince a frightened and frustrated country.
I watched Clinton speak three times during the
campaign, and she limited herself to womens issues
too, but she did it cleverly. The emphasis was on economics rather than reproductive rights. She was especially good on the economic impact of pay equity:
working women would have more money to spend,
and they would spend it on consumer goods, which
would create jobsthe opposite of trickle-down

economics. She told specic personal stories about

her difculties as a working mom. She spoke slowly,
softly, far more condently than she had in past campaigns. There was a two-tiered rationale for her message: she was spot-on the Democrats national pitch, a
good soldier selling the blue brand, but the emphasis
on womens rights also redressed a failing from her
2008 campaign. She had run on experience then
and downplayed the fact that she was a piece of history: the rst plausible woman to run for President.
She doesnt have to worry about experience now; everyone knows she has it. The question is, how does
she play to her strengths as a woman if she chooses
to run? (And I assume she will.) And how does she
convince voters that shes not the same old, same old?
The 2014 exit polls indicated that both political
parties are roundly disdained. The Republicans
earned their enmity because of their angry, intransigent extremism, but they may be emerging from
the swamp. Their candidates this year were more
moderate (though they still pandered shamelessly
to the partys paranoid base). Even Mitch McConnell
was making postelection noises about getting stuff
done in Washington. This raises a potential problem for Democrats. It could put a crimp in one of
their strongest arguments: Were not Republicans.
There are two even larger, perhaps existential
problems for the Dems. They are the party of government, and people dont like government. They dont
think it works. The botched rollout of Obamacare is
far more persuasive to many people than its ensuing
successes. Additionally, Democrats have allowed
themselves to be lulled by demographics. They are
strong among growing blocs: women, young people,
minorities. Consequently, they have come to seem
a party of identities rather than issues. They dont
speak to a larger, unifying sense of America; they
speak to women and try to get out the vote among
blacks, Latinos and students. They have come to
seem opportunistic rather than optimistic.

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Winning campaign

Supporters
gather at a hotel
in Louisville,
Ky., to celebrate
McConnells
victory

NATION

GOP WAVE
HOW MITCH
McCONNELL
WON THE DAY
BY DAVID VON DREHLE

NATION | MIDTERM ELECTIONS

THERE WAS A LOT

OF TALK ABOUT
A CRISIS IN THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY
after it failed to dislodge Barack Obama
in 2012. The GOP might win hand-drawn
districts and bright red states, but as a
national force, it was unpopular among
young people and nonwhite voters and
riven by warfare between Tea Party and
Establishment.
But a funny thing happened on the
road to ruin. On Nov. 4, Republicans
turned a favorable political season into a
wave of victories that not only gave them
control of the Senate and fortied their
hold on the House but also padded their
substantial edge among governors and
tightened their grip on state legislatures.
From the red state of Kansas, where a
ballyhooed Republican crack-up failed to
materialize, to true-blue Maryland, which
elected just its third GOP governor since
the 1950s, voters delivered what could
only be read as a rebuke to the notion of
Democratic inevitability. Record spending by Democrats in the North Carolina
Senate race could not save incumbent Kay
Hagan, nor could the massed artillery of
Democratic interest groups put a dent in
Wisconsins re-elected Republican Governor Scott Walker. Come January, Speaker
of the House John Boehner (if re-elected
by his conference) will lead the largest Republican majority since 1947, while across
the Capitol, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell will assume the title he has spent
a career pursuing: Senate majority leader.
It is McConnell, more than any other
Republican victor, who is the owlish face of
the broad off-year comeback. An unglamorous pragmatist, he takes an approach
to governing that skimps on hope and
change in favor of nuts and bolts. Or, shall
we say, winning and losing. In the ashes
of 2012, McConnell shrugged off calls to
retool the GOP agenda and instead focused
on the specics of the next battle. What he
saw was that 2014 would be an unusually
favorable eld on which to ght. In these
polarized days, Republicans dominate not
just in red states and red districts but also
34

in red yearsthe midterm cycles when

only about 90 million hardcore voters,
about a fourth of the total electorate, show
up at the polls. And even for a midterm
election, this one was stacked with juicy
targets. Few Republican incumbents appeared vulnerable, while Democrats were
defending seats in red and purple states
from Montana to North Carolina.
So the man who famously declared in
2010 that his agenda boiled down to opposing Obama put all his chips on that simple
strategy. As Vladimir Putin, ISIS and the
Ebola virus added to the challenges that
typically drag down a presidencys sixth
year, McConnell labored behind the scenes
to keep his troops focused on the forlorn
man in the White House. Republican challengers repeated that their Democratic opponents voted with the President 90% of
the time, and the Democrats responded
by conspicuously avoiding Obama. Aided
by interest groups like the Chamber of
Commerce and the cooperation of key
donors like the billionaire brothers David
and Charles Koch, McConnell clamped a
lid on the Tea Party and turned the election into a yawp of formless discontent
from an electorate that believes the country is on the wrong track.
What kind of mandate does that create?
McConnells approach left that question
hanging. In an interview with Time on a
sunny November Monday in Hazard, Ky.,
while cruising to his own sixth term, the
soon-to-be Senate leader sketched rather
circumspect ambitions. Exactly which
bill comes up rst will be determined after discussing that with my colleagues and
with the Speaker, he told Time. Some examples of things that were very likely to
be voting onapproving the Keystone XL
pipeline, repealing the medical-device tax,
trying to restore the 40-hour workweek,
trying to get rid of the individual mandate.
These are the kinds of things that I believe
there is a bipartisan majority in the Senate
to approve. He said he hopes to nd com-

mon ground with Obama on tax reform

and trade agreementsissues that, not coincidentally, deeply divide the Democrats.
He preferred not to discuss the tricky
issues that divide his own party, like immigration and outright repeal of Obamacare. A riot of would-be Presidents are
scrambling to seize the GOP torch in
2016, including some very noisy members of McConnells own Senate caucus.
Hes well aware that their struggles will
quickly shatter the illusion of unity that
he has briey created.
As for the President, Obama told reporters in a Nov. 5 press conference his goal
is to just get stuff done after a year of
unrelieved misery. In October 2013, as he
emerged triumphant from a showdown
with Republicans that briey shuttered
the government, Obama watched helplessly as the Obamacare website opped.
Since then, it seemed as if every half-step
forward for the economy was blotted out
by another menacing development overseas. Even some fellow Democrats wondered if Obama might be out of gas.
Not so, his aides said as the last votes
were being tallied. Obama spent election
night on the phone with winning and

Scoring a goal Poised to become Senate majority

leadera longtime dreamMcConnell, with
wife Elaine Chao, greets supporters

P R E V I O U S PA G E S : V I I ; T H E S E PA G E S : C H R I S T O P H E R M O R R I S V I I F O R T I M E

losing candidates from both parties and

made plans for a meeting with congressional leaders on Friday, Nov. 7. He wants to
make the most of every remaining day, as
one associate put itbut it was not auspicious that his call to McConnell came after
the Senator had gone to sleep.
The President left a message.
McConnells Mission
given its empty negativity, the senate campaign of 2014 is not likely to make
much of a mark in the history books. On
the other hand, it would make a pretty
good case study for a book on advanced
political tactics.
McConnell was stung in 2012 by the
GOPs failure to capture a majority, and he
put a lot of the blame on the untamed radicals of the Tea Party. Born in the populist
anger of recession-era America, the movement was as zealous about knocking off
Establishment Republicans as it was about
beating liberal Democrats. Unvetted, untested, true-believer candidates in states
across the country rode the Tea Party wave
in GOP primaries only to blow up in the
general election.
It was time for the Old Guard to strike
time November 17, 2014

back. A little-watched special election

in 2013 for a House seat in Alabama saw
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce turn its
big guns against a Tea Party candidate.
When the Establishments choice won a
narrow victory, McConnell and his House
counterpart were heartened. Boehners
unruly backbenchers nally quit throwing spitballs and shut up, the Speaker told
condants, while McConnell advised the
U.S. Chambers board that the Alabama
special served as a warning to insurgents
that 2014 would be different.
It proved to be the template for a rough
primary in Mississippi earlier this year,
where the GOP establishment beat back
a Tea Party challenge to veteran Senator
Thad Cochran. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, McConnell served notice that Tea
Party enablers would pay a price for their
rabble-rousing. He made an example of a
GOP advertising rm, Jamestown Associates, and coaxed his colleagues into a boycott of the company. He planted stories of
bloated salaries paid to the leaders of pro
Tea Party groups, which was enough to
dampen some of their enthusiasm. Mitch
basically took all the wedge-driven zealots
in the party who screwed up the Senate for

two cycles and either slowed them down

or worse, said Rick Hohlt, a longtime GOP
consultant. He was focused and disciplined, and it was phenomenal to watch.
Another piece of the plan fell into place
when the Kochs chose not to wade into
the primary war, clearing the way for McConnell and his Establishment allies. In
past elections, their group Americans for
Prosperity has been a champion of Tea
Party candidates. Now, as AFP president
Tim Phillips put it, they asked themselves,
Whats the most important thing? Is the
most important thing having a more pure
45th Republican, or is the most important
thing, next year, not having a hard-left
majority leader?
McConnell cared more about winning than about yspeck ideological purity, and thus he set the tone of the 2014
campaign. And we went along with
him, adds Scott Reed, chief political
strategist for the U.S. Chamber, which
spent an unprecedented $70 million this
year. This battle for the soul of the party
proved to be a rout: candidates favored
by the Chamber won 14 of 15 elections.
Equally important was the recruitment
and training of those favored candidates.
McConnells colleagues on the National
Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)
spent months combing through battleground states in search of proven, appealing candidates who had broad support
among leading Republicans. As NRSC
political director Ward Baker told Time,
We wanted to be the Nick Saban of
recruitingreferring to the head coach
of the powerhouse University of Alabama
football team. I think in 13, we probably spent 50, 60% of our time recruiting.
Among the committees chosen targets
was Representative Cory Gardner of Colorado, who matched up well alongside incumbent Senator Mark Udall, a Democrat.
It was a hard sell, Baker said, but we
werent going to stop until Cory Gardner
said yes, and when he did, Gardner
nicknamed the Hedgehog by NRSC
staffran with a vengeance. Udalls vain
attempts to paint Gardner into a corner on
womens issues grew so tiresome that the
Denver press dubbed him Mark Uterus.
A similar story played out in Iowa,
where state senator Joni Ernst, a cheerful
campaigner and ofcer in the National
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SEEING
RED

DEMOCRAT

53

REPUBLICAN

45

2 Ind.*

Current

*Historically
caucused
with Dems

2 Ind.*

New

LINE OF
MAJORITY

3 undecided

43

52

SENATE

199

233

Current
3 vacancies

New

14 undecided

178

HOUSE

21

243
29

Current
New

17

2 undecided

GOVERNOR

31

Sources: New York Times and AP, as of Nov. 5

36

Guard, proved so appealing that retiring

Senator Tom Harkin awkwardly compared her to pop superstar Taylor Swift.
Harkin is one of the Senates leading liberals. To have his seat captured by the
conservative Ernst is perhaps the widest
ideological swing of the entire election.
In North Carolina, the NRSC backed
the speaker of the state house, Thom Tillis, in what seemed to be an uphill battle to
Election Day. He proved strong enough to
withstand more than $60 million spent on
behalf of his opponent, Senator Kay Hagan.
In Arkansas, Representative Tom Cotton,
a Harvard grad and Afghan war veteran,
made short work of Democrat Mark Pryor.
Once on board, the chosen candidates
were put through arduous training in
the perils of a modern campaign. On one
trip to Washington last year for a series of
policy briengs and fundraising events,
each candidate was met at the airport by
a campaign trackerthe trade term for
a hyperactive, in-your-face camera jockey
dispatched by an opponent to record a
politicians every word. Even highly experienced candidates can screw up under a
trackers constant gaze: former Virginia
governor and Senator George Allen famously dug his own grave in 2006 by calling his tracker macaca.
Later, NRSC staff revealed that the
trackers were GOP plants. Wed like to
show you the video of you and how you reacted, the staff told the candidates, according to NRSC nance vice chairman Senator
Rob Portman of Ohio. It was just a good
experience, he added, because most of
them had never had the experience of having someone with a camera three inches
from their face following them around.
In other sessions, the committee grilled
candidates using material dug up by NRSC
researchers, who combed sources ranging
from tax records to Facebook pages. [We]
ran them through the wringer, said political director Baker. I mean, it was pretty
tough. And then there were hours spent
digging through polling data to create
well-honed messages tailored to local voters. Practice, practice, practice. I believe
in repetition, Baker explained. Some of
our candidates have been through media
training and met with our debate team
and media trainers 15 to 20 times.
The work paid off in a campaign virtually free of GOP gaffesa welcome change
from 2010 and 2012, when Republican candidates mused disastrously on topics ranging from witchcraft to rape to the threat

of Sharia law in Dearborn, Mich. Needing

a net gain of six seats to control the Senate, McConnell had captured seven seats
by Nov. 5, with a strong shot at an eighth
pickup in Alaska and a ninth when Louisiana holds its runoff election on Dec. 6.
The Governors Ball
the biggest surprises on election
night were at the gubernatorial level,
where state issues loom large and some
pundits were predicting that the GOP
would lose a couple of governors ofces.
Instead, Republicans gained three.
In Illinois, where a bipartisan history of
corruption and mismanagement has created the worst government-pension crisis
in the country, voters dumped Governor
Pat Quinn in favor of Bruce Rauner, a Republican whose success in private-equity
investing shows up in details like his
membership in a $100,000 wine club. Massachusetts, bastion of liberal politics, chose
a moderate policy wonk named Charlie
Baker over Democrat Martha Coakley.
Voters in Maryland, where two-term Democratic Governor Martin OMalley is stepping down to continue his irtation with
a presidential bid, scorned his Lieutenant
Governor Anthony Brown in favor of Larry
Hogan, a businessman who promised to
roll back a package of tax hikes.
At the same time, Republicans staved
off a series of gritty challenges to their own
incumbents. Wisconsin Governor Walker,
who made himself the bane of labor unions
by stripping public employees of substantial bargaining power, won his third victory in four yearstwo scheduled elections
plus a recall. That burnishes his presidential hopes. Governor Rick Scott of Florida,
a rough-edged conservative, duked it out
with party switcher Charlie Crist, now a
Democrat; together they and their supporters spent $100 million on a ght that Scott
narrowly won. Another perennial swing
state, Ohio, re-elected Republican Governor
John Kasich in a genuine landslide. Even
embattled Kansas Governor Sam Brownback managed to hold his seat. In all, Republican Governors Association chairman
Chris Christie of New Jersey was a happy
man, with a pocket full of chits at the ready
for his own likely 2016 White House bid.
Vox Populi
so there was nothing gr and about
itno ights of oratory, few tears, no
faux Greek columns on a stage. The 2014
election was something simplerand

G E T T Y I M A G E S (4); A P (6)

THE NEW FACES

OF A MAJORITY
after a particularly costly and notably disciplined campaign
season, Republicans won a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate on Nov. 4,
giving the GOP control of both houses of Congress for the rst time
since 2007. The margin in both chambers proved to be larger than even
many Republicans had predicted, giving the party a potentially vetoproof edge on some issues. From Army veterans to farmers and former
CEOs, here are the new Republican Senators for 2015.

SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO

The rst female Senator from West Virginia
is the the daughter of a former West Virginia
governor. Since entering Congress in 2001,
Capito has been a staunch defender of the
states mining industry.

JONI ERNST
A former farmer, state senator and lieutenant
colonel of the National Guard, Ernst parlayed an
ad boasting her ability to castrate hogs into a
place in history as Iowas rst female Senator.

THOM TILLIS
After leading a conservative makeover of North
Carolina as state house speaker, Tillis, second
from right, took out a Democratic incumbent in
the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history.

MIKE ROUNDS
After a slow start, the former governor of South
Dakota accelerated to an easy win in the fourway race by tying his opponents to Obama, who
is deeply unpopular in the traditionally red state.

STEVE DAINES
A former Procter & Gamble executive, Daines
built a conservative record since entering
the House in 2012. His win gives Montana
Republicans a seat they havent held in more
than 100 years.

JAMES LANKFORD
Lankford was an unknown former Baptist youthcamp director when he won a congressional
seat in 2010. Now hes a conservative darling
who easily won Oklahomas open Senate seat.

TOM COTTON
The Tea Party conservative is an Ivy League
educated lawyer and Army veteran who ousted
a two-term Democratic incumbent for the
Arkansas seat. In other words, hes a rising star
in the GOP.

DAVID PERDUE
The former CEO of Dollar General made his
political debut with a bang, fending off the wellfunded daughter of a former Georgia Senator to
keep an open seat in Republican hands.

CORY GARDNER
Colorados Gardner blunted the Democratic
strategy of scaring women from the GOP by
embracing over-the-counter contraception and
backing away from a measure to dene a fetus
as a person.

BEN SASSE
A Harvard-trained management consultant who
worked in government for George W. Bush,
Sasse won by traveling Nebraska in an RV and
presenting himself as a Tea Partyfriendly
conservative.

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arguably more small-d democratic. It was

the grumbling expression of an unhappy
public, as heard and harnessed by a set
of politicians who tune their ears to that
low frequency.
Politicians like Bob Dole, if you can believe it, who is still tough as cowhide at
the age of 91. Cutting for sign in his home
state of Kansas on one of his trademark
thank-you tours last May, Dole picked
up the unmistakable rumble of oncoming
trouble: his old friend, Republican Senator
Pat Roberts, was tied to the railroad tracks
and didnt even know it.
Dole started ringing every bell he
could in Washington, urging his 50-yearold network of GOP operatives to send
help fast. It was another example of the
Republican establishment coming out of
its inching crouch. Gone from the Senate 18 years, Dole still had the instincts to
sense the problemand the connections
to put it on the map. When the Democrats
pushed their Senate nominee out of the
race at the last possible moment to make
room for a surging independent named
Greg Orman, the Roberts risk became
obvious to everyone. But by then Dole
had the wheels turning for a complete
makeover of the Roberts campaign team,
which sparked a rush of money into the
Sunower State. There was no lofty principle at work. As Dole put it to a friend,
he gured Orman was a Democrat in disguise, and I dont want a Democrat in the
Senate from Kansas.
Perhaps politicians cut from such basic and practical cloth can succeed where
loftier types have failed. It says something about these nuts-and-bolts guys
that Vice President Joe Biden, a man of
this ilk, successfully completed his congratulatory phone call to McConnell on
election night long before the President
tried and failed. They may not be ashy,
but the old pros understand the ebb and
ow of politics. They know that winning
an election only rarely means that voters have fallen in love with you. More
often, it means that on one particular
November day, they hate you just a little
bit less than they hate the other side.
Its a never-ending process. You have
to win them over again and again and
again. And you do that by deeds more
than by words. with reporting by
jay newton-small/hazard, ky.; alex
altman, zeke j. miller, alex rogers,
michael scherer and michael duffy/
washington

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KEEPING
SCORE

WINNER

Marijuana
THE BIG WINNER

Minimum Wage
Democratic candidates may have tanked in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, but one of the partys pet issues won in a walk. On ballot measures across
the U.S., voters overwhelmingly chose to increase their
states minimum wages, with Alaska raising its oor on
pay to $9.75 by 2016, Nebraska to $9 by 2016, Arkansas to
$8.50 by 2017 and South Dakota to $8.50 at the beginning
of 2015. Predictably, electric-blue San Francisco topped
them all, voting to up the citys hourly minimum to $15
by 2018, tying Seattle for a national high. The votes signal
widespread frustration with the federal minimum wage,
which has stagnated at $7.25 since 2009.

Number of times
Colorado voters
have rejected ballot
measures dening
a fetus as a person
since 2008. A similar
personhood measure
also failed in North
Dakota. The one
win for antiabortion
advocates:
Tennessee passed
a constitutional
amendment making
it easier to adopt
restrictions on
abortion.

Oregon and
Alaska voted to
create recreational
pot markets,
Washington,
D.C., legalized
possession, and
Guam became the
rst U.S. territory
to allow its medical
use. The only
setback: Florida,
which rejected
medical marijuana.
LOSER

Booze
Arkansas remains
one of Americas
driest states after
voters rejected a
proposal to sell
alcohol in the nearly
half of the state still
under prohibition. The
town of Hartselle,
Ala., voted to stay dry
for the fourth time in
12 years.

SPLIT DECISION
FRACKING

Soda

We know the
oil and gas
industry is
going to sue.

Despite heavy
spending from
beverage giants
Coca-Cola and
PepsiCo., Berkeley,
Calif., became the
rst U.S. city to
pass a tax on sugary
drinks. A steeper
soda tax failed
across the bay in
San Francisco.

Antifracking activist Cathy

McMullen, after the North
Texas city of Denton became
the rst in the oil-drenched
state to ban hydraulic
fracturing. The vote is expected
to ignite a long legal ght.

RECORD BOOK

Trailblazers
The Republican wave ushered in
three barrier-breaking politicians.
WINNER

THE RAP SHEET

Elise
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At 30 years
old, the former
George W. Bush
staffer and
vice-presidential
debate coach for
Paul Ryan is the
youngest woman
ever elected to
Congress. She
handily won the
open seat in
northern New
York State.

Mia Love

Saira Blair

The former
mayor of
Saratoga
Springs, Utah,
became the
rst black
Republican
woman elected
to Congress.
Also a Mormon,
Love has called
herself a
nightmare for
the Democratic
Party.

Campaigning from
her freshman
dorm room at
West Virginia
University,
Republican Blair,
18, became the
youngest state
lawmaker in the
U.S. after she
was elected to
the West Virginia
legislature on
a conservative
platform.

FAMILY TIES

Whats in a Name?
Three candidates broke into the family business
with big victories. One even ended a multigenerational losing streak.

George P.
Bush

Ted
Kennedy Jr.

The 38-yearold son of

potential 2016
presidential
candidate
Jeb Bush
was elected
Texas land
commissioner,
making him the
rst member
of the Bush
dynasty to win in
his rst race for
public ofce.

The son of late

U.S. Senator
Ted Kennedy
extended
the familys
political lineage
by winning an
open race for
the Connecticut
state senate.
The 53-year-old
Democrat is a
lawyer in the
Nutmeg State.

time November 17, 2014

You stood
by me
against
all the
odds.
U.S. Representative
Michael Grimm, the
lone Republican in
the New York City
delegation, who was
re-elected despite
being under federal
indictment for tax
fraud. The verdict
was mixed for other
candidates under
a criminal cloud:
Buddy Cianci, a
twice-convicted felon,
failed to reclaim his
old job as mayor of
Providence, R.I., while
the congressional bid
of former Louisiana
governor and
convicted racketeer
Edwin Edwards will
come down to a
Dec. 6 runoff.

LOSER

Gun Control

Bears

Voters in
Washington
State expanded
background
checks to all
rearm sales,
including online
purchases (and
rejected another
proposal to curb
them). Gun-control
advocates say
the win provides a
template for other
states in 2016.

Maines
estimated
30,000 bears
were dealt a blow
when voters kept
the states liberal
harvesting policy
intact, rejecting
a measure
that would
have prevented
hunters from
using dogs, traps
or bait to bag the
animals.

40
Number of hours of paid sick
leave workers in Massachusetts
can now earn and use each year.
Voters made Massachusetts the
third state to require paid sick
leave, after Connecticut and
California. Workers at Bay State
businesses with 11 or more employees can log one hour of leave
for every 30 they toil.

Gwen Graham
The attorney
daughter of
former Florida
governor Bob
Graham was a
rare bright spot
for national
Democrats,
unseating
two-term GOP
Representative
Steve Southerland
in the heavily
Republican Florida
panhandle.

$7.5 billion
Amount of a water bond approved by California voters. The measure was a key issue
for 76-year-old Governor Jerry Brown, who
campaigned more vigorously for its passage
than for his own re-election. Not that he
needed to: Brown easily won a record fourth
term in the drought-plagued Golden State.
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THE POWER OF

ONE
Xi Jinping, Chinas strongest
leader in years, aims to
propel his nation to the top
of the world order
B Y H A NN A H BE ECH /SH A NG H A I

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Xi Jinpings
Ascent to
H6XPPLW

1969

Exiled to Shaanxi province after his father was

purged, Xi lived in caves for seven years
1970s

In Shaanxi, Xi had to toil in

the elds. He later joined
the Communist Party and
served as a village ofcial
1975

1930s

Xis father Xi Zhongxun

fought as a communist
guerrilla alongside
Mao Zedong

The gathering in Beijing will be the Chinese leaders big show, and the regime has
used its authoritarian muscle to ensure a
awless event. To guarantee blue skies in
the notoriously smoggy capital, factories
have been idled and Beijing residents ordered to halt their work commutes. Waiters have been trained in exactly 484 steps
to ensure that more than 73,000 guests
receive their food within six minutes of
its preparation. A perfect place setting has
a purpose, and this one is no different: At
APEC, Xi is expected to lobby a skeptical
international audience for changes in the
global nancial architecture to give the
East greater prominence. He wants a new
nancial order, says Lam, with the AsiaPacic and China at the center.
A Man Apart
like the surging nation he leads, xi
(pronounced Shee) radiates pride and
ambition. His mantra, plastered on
billboards nationwide, is Chinese
dreaman amorphous catchphrase
that encompasses an individual striving

Upon returning to Beijing,

Xi studied chemical
engineering at the elite
Tsinghua University

for personal riches and a collective campaign to restore the country to its rightful
position atop the international order. As
Xi maneuvers to place China at the center
of the world, says Jerry Hendrix, a retired
U.S. Navy captain and Asia analyst, he is
simultaneously moving to place himself
at the center of China at a personal level
unseen since Mao and Deng.
Given how Mao-mania led to the Cultural Revolution and other horrors, China
might be wary of personality cults. For
decades since, the Communist Party has
encouraged consensus building within
its top ranks to avoid any one mans capriciousness from holding sway. But Xi, the
son of a party revolutionary, has proved
a canny populist after a decade of the
colorless regime of former President Hu
Jintao. To garner public support, Xi lards
his speeches with any number of rousing
refrains: jingoist rhetoric, Marxist slogans
and even Confucian quotations that could
have landed the literati in jail during
Maos era because of the Chairmans notorious allergy to ancient wisdom. We will

P R E V I O U S PA G E S : N ATA C H A P I S A R E N K O A P

he oct. 27 profile of
Chinas leader Xi Jinping
in the Shanghai Observer
didnt stint on praise.
Readers of the dispatch,
published by an online
daily partly owned by a
local chapter of the ruling Communist Party, learned that the
61-year-old President rises before dawn
and toils late into the night. He is bold
and down-to-earth, and his work style is
very rigorous, and his rhythm is very fast.
Within the space of a few hours, the writer
revealed, Xi dealt with the Presidents of
both Indonesia and Tanzania with grace
and charma foreign policy natural. Everyone present nodded in praise at the
Chinese Presidents words, the prole said.
A single humanizing touch was added: Of
course, like the average Chinese person,
the Shanghai Observer noted, Xi Jinpings
busy day is not without humor and joy.
Since taking ofce in November 2012,
Xi has consolidated power more rapidly than any other Chinese leader in
decadesall, if the Shanghai Observer is to
be believed, without misplacing his sense
of fun. It is not too early to suggest that Xi
will be Chinas most consequential leader
since Deng Xiaoping, the architect of the
nations economic reforms. As the nations
President, military chief and, most important, general secretary of the Chinese
Communist Party, Xi has upended the notion that the Peoples Republic is ruled by
a leadership collective. In just two years,
Xi Jinping has made himself into a strongman, says Willy Lam, an expert on elite
Chinese politics at the Chinese University
of Hong Kong. He has totally exceeded
expectations. The headline of an Oct. 21
online post in the Peoples Daily, the Communist Partys mouthpiece, captured Xis
place in history: Mao Zedong made Chinese people stand up; Deng Xiaoping made
Chinese people rich; Xi Jinping will make
Chinese people strong.
It is with an ascendant Xi that U.S. President Barack Obamafresh from disappointing midterm elections in the autumn
of his presidencywill meet this month
at the Asia-Pacic Economic Cooperation
(APEC) summit in Beijing. The Nov. 1012
forum will be the pairs rst meaningful
encounter since a confab at a California
ranch last year, when Xi reiterated the need
for a new kind of major power relations
between the worlds two biggest economies.

political leader who has the courage, sense

of mission and wisdom to lead the country
to its reawakening, declared an August
op-ed carried online by the China Daily, the
partys ofcial English-language messenger, before naming Xi the man for the job.
All of Xis ideas and actions on cultural,
military, political and economical reforms
are meant to push China further along the
road to rejuvenation.

1983

After serving as an aide to a Defense Minister, Xi worked

his way up party ranks in places like Hebei province

2008

As Vice President,
Xi traveled widely
abroad and oversaw
the Beijing Olympics

1987

A divorced Xi married
Peng Liyuan, a major
general in the Peoples
Liberation Armyand a
famous soprano
NOW

2002

Xi assumed Chinas
leadership in November
2012 and developed a
strongman image

X I Z H O N G X U N : X I N H U A / E Y E V I N E / R E D U X ; C AV E : N G H A N G U A N A P ; S T U D E N T, H E B E I : X I N H U A / L A N D O V ;
P E N G : X I A O L I E PA ; V O T E : T E H E N G K O O N A F P/G E T T Y I M A G E S; C E R E M O N Y: L I N TA O Z H A N G G E T T Y I M A G E S

As party chief in the

rich coastal regions, Xi
promoted market reforms

never blindly copy the experience of other

countries, Xi said in an August speech,
let alone absorb bad things from them.
Whereas his predecessor Hu faded
into the backgrounda pale apparatchik surrounded by other gray-faced
functionariesXi has bluntly asserted his
authority. Rather than divvy up responsibility among the seven members of the
ruling Politburo Standing Committee, Xi
has taken direct command of inuential
committees, some newly formed, on national security, censorship, the Internet,
military restructuring, foreign policy and
economic reform.

Xi symbolizes a nation projecting greatness, but his homeland is struggling with

slowing growth: the economy expanded
by 7.3% in the third quarter, the slowest uptick in ve years. A widening income gap,
crippling corruption and environmental
woes have led to dissatisfaction even from
those who have beneted most from the
greatest economic expansion of all time.
Xi must wean China off an overdependence on exports and investmentand
move the nation up the economic ladder
by encouraging innovation and services.
At this critical moment of great changes
and transitions, China is in dire need of a

SINCE TAKING OFFICE , XI HA S CONSOLIDATED

POWER MORE R APIDLY THAN ANY OTHER
CHINE SE LE ADER IN DECADE S
time November 17, 2014

Born to Rule
if xi carries a sense of manifest destiny about his homeland, his personal trajectory seems equally preordained. The
son of Xi Zhongxun, a communist guerrilla who fought alongside Mao, he was
sent to the countryside to atone for his elite
background after his father fell victim to
a leadership purge in the 1960s. Like the
local villagers, the younger Xi lived in a
cave in rural Shaanxi province, for seven
years. Life [at] the grassroots can strengthen your mind, Xi recalled of the manual
labor, eabites and blisters in a 2005 interview with local TV. Since then, no matter
what kind of difculties I encounter, as
soon as I remember these experiences, I
regain courage.
As the tumult of Maos political upheavals dissipated, Xi slid back into city
life, studying chemical engineering at
the elite Tsinghua University and rising
through party ranks in coastal areas profiting from market reforms. (His father was
also rehabilitated and later championed
economic experimentation and liberal
politics.) Xi eventually married an alluring singer famed for her renditions of military tunes. Unlike other recent First Ladies
who were rarely photographed in public,
Peng Liyuan has traveled by her husbands
side on foreign trips, invariably outtted
in stylish Chinese labels. The couple sent
their daughter to Harvard University
perhaps the true Chinese dream.
Yet this revolutionary princeling,
as scions of party royalty are called, has
also cultivated a common-man image.
Since taking ofce, Xi has emerged from
behind the vermilion walls of the Beijing
leadership compound to stroll the capitals
alleyways and chow down on steamed
buns. In a nation where ofcials are used
to employing bag men, Xi pointedly carries his own accessories in some photo
ops. (A picture of the President clutching
his own umbrella, his pant legs rolled
up to avoid a downpour, won Chinas top
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44

economically beholden to Beijing, worry

about the countrys maritime expansion
and military buildup. While Hu spoke of
Chinas peaceful rise, Xi has warned that
the Peoples Liberation Army needs to be
on alert. We must ensure that our troops
are ready when called upon, he told soldiers shortly after taking ofce, that they
are fully capable of ghting and that they
must win every war. New Chinese passports were issued the year Xi ascended to
power that show boundaries conicting
with those claimed by eight other governments. Chinas leaders insist they are not
upping the ante, but they have not used
multilateral forums to settle the disputes.
Economic partners aside, Beijing has few
true international allies. China wants
the status of being a superpower, says
the University of Sydneys Brown, but it
doesnt want the responsibility.
The Nationalist Card
x i h a s r esort ed t o f u l minat ing
against an old bogeyman: the evil West,
intent on subjugating China, just like it
did 150 years ago when imperial powers
exploited the enfeebled Qing dynasty. Last
year an internal government memo circulated listing seven Western values and
institutions that China must battle at all
costs, including constitutional democracy, media independence, civil society and
market liberalism. Even the universal
values of human rights were seen as unt
for Chinese consumption. Instead, Xi has
promoted the Communist Party above any
other institution, including the Chinese
courts and the constitution.
Just a couple of years ago, Xi had to
tolerate Western disapproval. On a February 2012 trip to the U.S., before he became Chinas leader, Xi received an ofcial
champagne toast from Joe Biden, from one
Vice President to another. In his lengthy
remarks, Biden blasteddiplomatically,
of courseChinas habit of locking up dissidents, its pillaging of intellectual property and trade secrets and its undervalued
currency. Xi stood there with a Cheshirecat grin on his face, recalls Richard Solomon, a veteran East Asia hand at the State
Department who attended the event. But
he must have been enragedto put it in
Chinese termsat the real loss of face, and
not giving him the kind of respect that he
felt he deserved.
Now the tables have turned. Obama
may bring a long list of requests to Beijing

this montha rollback on Chinese cyberspying, more market access and better
treatment of ethnic minoritiesbut
Chinese state media have already been
scaling back expectations for the U.S.
Presidents visit. A Nov. 5 online commentary in the Peoples Daily criticized the U.S.
for double standards in the ght against
terrorism and warned Washington to
tread lightly on trouble spots like North
Korea and Beijings poor relations with
Tokyo. Wang Fan, vice president of China
Foreign Affairs University, was quoted as
saying: Such hot issues touch upon Chinas core interests.
Beyond geopolitics, Xi and Co. have unleashed a crackdown on foreign businesses
operating in China, nailing them for antitrust violations, bribery and substandard
products. Yes, domestic companies have
been targeted too, but its hard not to see
an antiforeign bias in the crusade, which
has harnessed the state media. Everyone
from Microsoft and McDonalds to Apple
and Audi has been shamed. A summer
survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China found that 60% of respondents felt the welcome for foreign business
had chilled, while the European Chamber of Commerce complained that it had
received numerous alarming anecdotal
accounts from a number of sectors that administrative intimidation tactics are being

A L E X O G L E A F P/G E T T Y I M A G E S

photojournalism prize this year, even

though the image was hardly artistically
exceptional.) The carefully constructed
personacandid and approachable, despite the helmet of perfectly parted and
dyed haireven has a name: Xi Dada,
or Uncle Xi. This nickname makes him
more like a man of the people, says Pan
Yuhang, an environmental-science major
at Beijing Normal University, who held
aloft a handmade sign welcoming Xi Dada
to the campus in September.
Xi has so far declined unscripted interviews with major, independent foreign media. But he has promoted policies that are
particularly popular among the 700 million or so Chinese who have attained or
are striving for middle-class status. He
has launchedand, more impressively,
intensiedan antigraft campaign that
has netted nearly 75,000 cadres in a country where endemic corruption has shredded the partys reputation. (It hasnt gone
unnoticed that the crusade has also felled
some of Xis presumed political rivals.)
In a country experiencing the most frenzied urbanization in world history, he has
vowed to simplify the paperwork people
need to move from farms to cities. He has
also pledged to loosen long-hated familyplanning restrictions so that China can
better prepare itself for a future lled with
too few youths taking care of too many
elderly. Xi Jinping is the emperor of the
bourgeoisie because its the emerging middle class that matters most in China these
days, says Kerry Brown, a former British
diplomat who now heads the China Studies Center at the University of Sydney.
Given the middle classs fondness for
private enterprise, property and other
capitalist notions, its become harder to
justify communism as the most suitable
ideology for modern China. So Xi has relied on nationalism to inspire and unify
the masses. From the South and East China Seas to the Himalayas, Xi defends what
he sees as Chinas rightful borders. He has
chafed at U.S. attempts to keep the peace
in the Pacic, dismissing Obamas talk of
pivoting to Asia as nothing more than
containment of China by another term.
Matters in Asia ultimately must be taken
care of by Asians, Xi said at an international security conference in Shanghai
in May. Asias problems ultimately must
be resolved by Asians, and Asias security
ultimately must be protected by Asians.
Chinas neighbors, most of whom are

The President is present As Beijing faced off

against the protesters in Hong Kong, this image

showing a cardboard cutout of Xi carrying the
movements signature yellow umbrella went viral

used to impel companies to accept punishments and remedies without full hearings.
For all of Xis populist charm and global
ambitions, his tenure has also been marked
by a brittleness at odds with the image of an
aspiring superpower. Hundreds of Chinese
who have dared to question the wisdom of
the party have been locked up, most with
no due process. Xi has tightened controls
on the Internet, silencing even voices that
parroted the partys own modest reform
goals. In tiny Hong Kong, the former British outpost that is governed by separate
laws from the rest of China, Beijing has
given no indication that it will consider
the wishes of the thousands of residents
who have taken to the streets to demand
democratic concessions for their city.
The crackdown on dissent has reached
ridiculous proportions. Over the past
month, for example, Chinese security
personnel have rounded up more than

a dozen people in an artists colony outside Beijing. Some were taken away for
posting articles about the pro-democracy
protests shaking Hong Kong. Others were
detained at a poetry reading. People who
tried to help the detainees families were
themselves picked up. The arrested artists did not want to be martyrs and none of
them tried to organize a rebellion, says an
artist surnamed Han, who does not want
his full name used because so many of his
friends are now in jail. They just wanted
to express themselves.
A Clean Image
to xi, such free expression and debate
may be among the Western iniquities the
party must guard against if it is to avoid
the fate of the defunct Soviet Union.
Why did the Soviet Communist Party
collapse? Xi asked in a December 2012
internal speech that was later leaked. An

CHINA WANT S THE S TATUS OF BEING

A SUPERPOWER, BUT IT DOE SNT WANT
THE RE SP ONSIBILIT Y.
kerry brown, director, china studies center, university of sydney
time November 17, 2014

important reason was that their ideals

and beliefs had been shaken. Perhaps the
battle against independent thinkers also
proves Xis innate conservatism, despite
the hopes that he would follow in the footsteps of his more liberal-minded father. Or
maybe its simply the mark of a man beset
by the multitude of challenges that come
with leading one-fth of humanity. If Xi
is clearly in charge of China, then it is he
who will take the fall if the economy slows
drastically and social unrest explodes.
Discontent [in China] is on the rise, says
Dan Blumenthal, director of Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute
in Washington. People are wealthier. The
deal that was madeshut up, and youll
get wealthyis coming to an end. They
want a lot more than that.
What the Chinese people are getting
instead is a leader whose image is so controlled that little is left to chance. Earlier this year, a cartoon was released on
a government-linked website featuring
Xiunremarkable in a Western context
but revolutionary in a country where leaders are not to be made fun of, even gently.
The Xi caricature was jolly-looking, with
a pleasing belly and inoffensive grayand-blue clothes. Then came the ood of
analysis, presumably state-sanctioned, as
to why this cartoon meant all of China
should adore Xi Jinping. The Global Times,
a patriotic newspaper, even wrote approvingly of the angle of Xis cartoon feet in an
online infographic: His wide-toed stance
is deliberate to make the President seem
more open to the people.
A similar exhaustive outpouring
followed the publication of last months
Shanghai Observer story. But when Time
tried to contact the author of the prole,
the facade of journalistic credibility
crumbled. An Observer employee admitted
that the reporters name might be a
pseudonym and that he had never met the
writer. His articles are always forwarded
to me by someone else, he said, declining
to disclose who that sender was. with
reporting by gu yongqiang, emily
rauhala and michael schuman/beijing
and mark thompson/washington

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LIFE
AFTER
WAR

V E T E R A N S OF IR AQ A ND A F G H A NI S TA N

A RE B AT TLING L A S T ING WOUND S

B O T H V I S IB L E A ND IN V I S IB L E

BY K ARL VICK
P H O T O G R A P H S B Y J A M E S N AC H T W E Y F O R T IM E

I felt like my legs had been taken

without my permission, says
CEDRIC KING, 37, of waking up at
Walter Reed in August 2012 after
stepping on an IED in Afghanistan.
The Army master sergeant quickly
sank into depressionuntil his
daughters Amari, 11, and Khamya,
7, made him try swimming. It felt
like drowning at rst, he says, but I
needed to know that I could get back
to everything I did before.

NATION | VETERANS

THE WOR KS HOP ON

THE 14TH F LO OR

IN THEIR
OWN WORDS
THE BEST OF
#TIMEVETS
When TIME set out to
explore the profound
effects of Americas recent
warsboth on those who
serve and on the people
who support themwe
knew we couldnt do it with
a single magazine feature
or photo essay. So we
decided to broaden the
conversation. For weeks,
weve tapped our Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram
feeds to ask millions of
veterans and their families
to share photos and stories
about readjusting to life
after warstories that are
happy, heavy, poignant,
inspiring and everything
in between. Here, were
sharing four with you. See
more at time.com/vets, and
submit your own via email
(vets@time.com) or on
social media (by tagging a
post with #TIMEvets).

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of the VAs New York Harbor Healthcare

building is a cross between a Civil War charnel house and the R&D lair James Bond visits
en route to his latest mission. Arms and legs
are scattered on tabletops. So are waterproof
microchips, remote controls and camouage.
The role of Q falls to a bearded orthotistprosthetist named Christopher Fantini, who
on the last Friday in October picks up a polished aluminum armall the limbs lying
about are articial onesand performs a bit
of magic from some ingenious future: the
wrist swivels, ngers ex, the elbow bends,
all at the command of a blinking red tassel
he wiggles on his shoe.
This is funded by DARPA, Fantini says,
referring to the Pentagons legendary Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, which
invented, among other things, the Internet.
No one will argue that the care offered American veterans has been awless, least of all
after the recent scandal at VA hospitals and
Walter Reed before that. But when it comes
to purpose-driven gadgetry, the prospects for
the combat-wounded have advanced in the
most dazzling of ways.
That is one message of the James Nachtwey
photographs on the pages that follow: applied
technology, coupled with grit, can generate
something surpassing, a chronicle of striving
and redemption that ows straight into the
brimming heart of the American story.
But Nachtwey prefers to work in black and
white for a reason, and the shadows lurking
behind his subjects can be dark indeed. They
had physical injuries, but the injuries we are
so ill equipped to help them with are things
we cant see, says Peter Chiarelli, a retired
Army general who led the militarys efforts
to temper the most persistent cost of conict,
the brutal loop that traps a combat vet in his
own mind. I think we need to help them
with everything, the things we can see and
the things we cant see.
Years ago I spent a night in the busiest combat hospital in Iraq, talking to Army surgeons

struggling with both the workload and a despair that at times hung in their ofces like a
brown fog. The advances in place all around
them had been extraordinaryand, to the
surgeons, double-edged. Body armor was saving lives but also shifting injury patterns to
the extremities, face and brain. Advances in
battleeld medicine brought soldiers and Marines into an operating room less than an hour
after sustaining wounds so grievous, they
would have been fatal in any previous war. In
Vietnam, where more than 58,000 Americans
died, there were just about three wounded
for every fatality. In Iraq, the ratio climbed
to 7 to 1. Each additional survivor was one
more person returning with memories that
would leave him changed. And a dispiriting
number were missing pieces of their bodies,
even of their brains. We can save you, one
of the Baghdad surgeons said with a sigh. You
might not be what you were.
But then no one is, after war.
The ghting ends, of course. The U.S. war
in Afghanistan, at 13 years the longest in the
nations history, draws to an ofcial close
with the calendar year. Yet every conict
persists in the men and women who fought
it. World War I was still alive until Frank
Buckles passed away in February 2011 at age
110. Vietnam lingers in the aging men who
populate VA wards. And the campaigns in
Iraq and Afghanistan will grind on for decades, continually muddying the transition
from uniformed service to civilian life.
Not that its anything but a lurching
transitionfrom war to peacein the best
of times. Back in the States, the simplifying
imperatives of unit life are gone. So is the
intensity, both of combat and of the relationships combat forges. If, as David Finkel
wrote in Thank You for Your Service, war is
about loving the guy standing next to you,
all at once that guy is a fellow pedestrian,
waiting for the light.
Theres this profound sense of alienation
that you feel when you come home from

war, says Phillip Carter, who served in Iraq

from 2005 to 2006 and is now a senior fellow
at the Center for a New American Security.
This societys so different from what youve
lived in for the last 14 monthsexacerbated
by the fact that so few people in America
have a visceral connection to the military.
To this alienation add, if you will, the
subtraction of a limb. Or, more common, a
recurring nightmare, custom-made to amplify a precisely remembered horror. In Iraq,
former Army Sergeant Steve Moore once
saw the bodies of two children hanged over a
road for selling sodas to Americans. Home in
California, he could not stop seeing them in
the faces of his two sons, and he dreamed of
people dropping from the sky by their necks.
What took the longest for me was to
heal internally, says Chris Melendez, 27,
a New Yorker. He lost a leg to an IED on a
night patrol and, even so, eventually realized his childhood dream of becoming a
professional wrestler (for TNA on the cable
channel Spike). But rst he had to deal with
posttraumatic stress that robbed him of sleep
and had him jumping out of bed at the sound
of a garbage truck. I have a habit of internalizing. As luck would have it, his father
had served in Vietnam and was right there
to listen to the thoughts that keep many vets
cooped up in the house, alone.
The Nov. 2 New York City Marathon doubled as an amputee showcase. Alfredo De Los
Santos, who lost one leg to an RPG, was the
fastest of all across the nish line, winning
in the handcycle division. He credits his win
to a regimen that has him on a training bike
whenever his PTSD wont let him sleep. I
dont do it because I want to be the best of the
best, he says. I do it because I need to do this,
not to go crazy. Cedric King, who lost both
legs to an IED, was one of the last to nish,
running the entire course on prostheses that
broke down twice, at mile 3 and mile 8. He
xed one with an Allen wrench and a disposable lighter and walked the last blocks with
a cancer survivor. That moment right there
let me know, You know what? I dont have it
so bad, King says. I could have died too. But
shes beat cancer twice and still goes out and
talks to people about it. I got a lot of strength
from her. The best part of the marathon?
That it was so difcult. Yesterday let me

know that mentally I could be strong enough

to endure anything, he says. I needed that.
Few things are as fragile as mental health,
and while its a truism that technology always
advances faster than human behavior, that
lag seems crueler when the suffering was
incurred in the service of the nation and endured in private. And it becomes inexcusable
when a scientic establishment fails to apply
itself to relieving the pain. Articial limbs
went from vaguely creepy to the sleek carbon composite of a blade runner in a couple
of decades. Mental-health diagnostics went
from operational exhaustion to PTSD: a
name change. Perhaps a third of returning
ghters struggle with it in some form, the
same proportion as in World War II, Chiarelli observesand stigma persists. We have
state-of-the-art prosthetics, but when it comes
to treating them for traumatic brain injury or
posttraumatic stress, they have to go back to
the 30s, he says. Thats where we are.
Is there a way out? Chiarelli, now working for reform as the head of One Mind for Research, laments the lack of investment in the
big science that could produce practical solutions. Meanwhile, on the ground, narrow
pathways are beginning to emerge. Moore
found consolation in a service dog offered
in a program for vets, a golden retriever that
forced him out into the world. Other combat
veterans move forward working with horses,
or hunting, or sailing, or helping other vets.
Most of these connect at a very primal
level, says Carter. Theres something very
primitive in our connection with animals,
in our connection to the outdoors.
Tech has its role. Virtual-reality software
puts the vet back in Iraq or Afghanistan,
reliving the trauma so often, it bleeds away
some of its paralyzing power. And the
hardware of adaptive sportsFantini
once made a vet an arm that was a golf
clubturns out to be useful in healing the
mind as well as the body. It makes sense:
besides promoting self-sufficiency and,
especially in those who become trainers
themselves, a sense of mission, the sports
put vets in the company of other vets, the
only people who know what theyve been
through. Which is more than anyone should
have to bear alone. with reporting by
olivia b. waxman/bethesda, md.

COLOR PHOTO: COURTESY OF ADA M M AGERS

ADAM MAGERS, 29
FORMER ARMY
SERGEANT
This photo was taken
at Camp Liberty in
Baghdad in 2008, when
my friend Jay (left) and
I were getting ready to
go on a mission. We
were IED hunters, which
meant we got very close
to getting blown up all
the time.
When I got home, I
started having panic
attacks. I was so
paranoidlooking for
bombs underneath
cushions, pillows, in my
closet, my dishwasher,
behind my shower
curtain. Id never felt
so helpless. I started
thinking about suicide.
Right around then, I met
a veteran with PTSD
who told me about Save
a Warrior, a group that
teaches meditation.
I was skeptical at
rst, but this guy had
attempted suicide, so
he knew what it was
like to suffer the way Id
been suffering. With the
group, I learned how to
sit and tell myself not to
have anxious thoughts,
that they dont have
power over me. I
started doing this for 20
minutes every day. And
I havent had a panic
attack since.

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NATION | VETERANS

Before he started swimming at a

Walter Reed pool, above, King would
often fall asleep to audio of motivational
speakers and Bible verses and play
around on his iPad, searching for
inspiration and a new talent. On a
whim, he typed in double amputee
running and was struck by videos
of Scott Rigsby, a double-leg-amputee
triathlete. It felt so good to see that was
possible, he says. I was like, Man,
maybe this is what Im supposed to do.

50

When King got prosthetic legs in November 2012,

he says he was discouraged because he couldnt
walk for more than 10 minutes at a time. But after
ve months of practice, he graduated to running
blades. King took his rst jog at one of Walter
Reeds indoor tracks, below, while watching
coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing. He
vowed to run it the next year.

JAMES
FITZGER ALD, 28
FORMER ARMY
STAFF SERGE ANT
This photo was taken
when I was on combat
patrol in Afghanistans
Pech River Valley
around July 2010. On
Veterans Day of that
year, we embarked on
an operation called
Bulldog Bite. Two
days later, we were
ambushed. A gunshot
wound to my left thigh
knocked me off a
mountain into a ravine. I
fractured my right knee,
broke my right femur.
But when one of my
soldiers got killed the
next daythats what
hurt the most, because
I was responsible for
those men.
I got sent to an Army
medical center in
Georgia for three
weeks, and I remember
having mismanaged
pain meds and
inattentive doctors.
I felt demeaned. I
didnt make a formal
complaint, but I told
the local ombudsman
that something had to
change.

In addition to strength training

at a Walter Reed gym, left, King
ran numerous practice races, each
time thinking, Im not as fast as
I thought I was going to be, but I
can get faster. He nished the 2014
Boston Marathon in just over six
hours (despite agonizing pain),
then followed it with a Half Ironman
race in September, the New York
City Marathon in November and a
series of motivational speaking gigs.
Today King calls his condition a
gift, because it gave his life purpose.
Theres no reason Im alive, he
says, other than to show people the
impossible really isnt impossible.

About a year later, I

was up and moving
again and feeling a lot
better. I even came out
to my soldiers after I
was medically retired.
Today, Im still in some
pain. But Ive got things
to help me get by:
my boyfriend, my lost
soldiers parents and
focusing on college. Id
love to have a career in
law and run for ofce
one day.

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NATION | VETERANS

When WAYNE WALDON, 32, started his recovery process, I couldnt stand on my leg and walk
without being in pain and drenched in sweat, says the retired Army captain, who lost his right leg
in combat in Baghdad. Seven years and countless exercises laterincluding core-strengthening
jackknifes, aboveWaldon not only walks, but hes also an adaptive-snowboarding champion. The
prosthetic leg doesnt feel stuck to me anymore, he says. It has become part of me.
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ANNE SPILLANE, 33
ARMY PHYSICIAN
My dad took this
photo at my home
in Columbia, Md.,
the day I left for my
rst deployment to
Afghanistan. It was
right before July 4,
2013. That day
stood out because
three years before,
I had premature
quadruplets. They
came at 24 weeks
and needed feeding
tubes, home oxygen,
repeat hospitalizations,
surgeries and more to
survive. One of them,
my son Wyatt, had
cerebral palsy. I was
doing my residency,
and I took a yearlong
leave of absence to
focus on my family.
Those experiences
were incredibly difcult.
But they were also
important, because
they helped me
relate to the medical
circumstances of
families in Afghanistan.
I was able to assist
other moms in similar
situations who didnt
have access to quality
medical care.
When I deployed,
my children were
learning to walk, to
run, to eat by mouth.
When I came home,
they were putting
sentences together
and running to hug
me. They continue to
have medical issues,
but nobody is on home
oxygen anymore. Were
tremendously blessed.

COLOR PHOTO: TIM S PILL A NE

NATION | VETERANS

Army combat medic Sergeant ADAM HARTSWICK,

23, below, lost his legs and suffered a traumatic
brain injury on May 14, 2013, when he stepped on
an IED in Afghanistan while treating wounded
soldiers. A few months ago he started virtualreality therapy, in which he uses his prosthetic legs
to move a boat through a slalom course, among
other exercises. Im making steady progress, he
says. Ive become a great walker.

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ANTHONY DROZ, 26
FORMER MARINE
CORPORAL
My friend took this
photo on Aug. 29. I
was in Bethlehem,
Pa., and I had just
nished training for
the Spartan Race and
an overnight 50-mile
hike I did to raise
awareness about
veteran suicides.
Im third-generation
military, and my dad,
an Army vet, took his
life when I was 12.

After Army Specialist

STEPHANIE MORRIS, 25,
suffered a leg and foot injury
in an attack on June 18, 2013,
at a bus stop in Bagram,
Afghanistan, doctors doubted
she would ever run again. My
self-esteem shot way down,
says Morris, who underwent
treatment for anger issues and
PTSD. Now she works out and
does physical therapy, as seen
here. Last month she ran the
Army Ten-Miler. I have to do
it for them, she says, referring
to friends she lost in the attack.

Retired Navy hospital corpsman

JOSE RAMOS, 34, who lost his arm in a
July 28, 2004, rocket attack in Iraq, loves
marathons and triathlons. Running is
what I do to relax, he says. But Ramos,
who is eyeing the 2016 Paralympics,
struggles to transition from swimming to
biking with his prosthetic arm; here, hes
working with experts to fashion a bike
with a prosthesis already attached.

COLOR PHOTO: COURTESY OF AN THON Y DROZ

Between that and

three guys I personally
served with in Iraq and
Afghanistan getting
killed in action, I get hit
with a lot of survivors
guilt. It used to be
really rough. Id go to
bed with a bottle of
Jameson and wake up
drinking a beer. I once
got into a motorcycle
crash hungover.
Then, a few months
later, a friend from my
2009 Iraq deployment
signed us up for a
kayaking trip with
veterans like me. That
helped me realize how
much I missed having
a brotherhood. When
I got home, I stayed
sober. I started training
for a Spartan Race,
and the obstacle-race
community became
my brotherhood. Now
I run Flatline Fighters,
an online community
where vets can share
their stories, so
people know there are
reasons not to give up.

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MUSIC

Traveling Tunes
For Foo Fighters eighth
album, Sonic Highways, the
band traveled across the U.S.,
recording eight songs in eight
cities. The album drops
Nov. 10, while an HBO series
following the road trip is
currently airing.

Read James
Poniewoziks take on
Lisa Kudrow and
The Comeback
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TELEVISION

Try Again
The upcoming biopic Aaliyah:
Princess of R&B, airing
Nov. 15 on Lifetime, has
already generated controversy
for its depiction of the singer,
who died in a 2001 plane
crash at the age of 21.

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God after a catastrophe befalls
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by Mary Shelleys Frankenstein,
hits shelves on Nov. 11.

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as an edgy actress, Kudrow doesnt like
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Books
The Road to Utopia. How Bob Hope
set the stage for Hollywood activism
By Richard Zoglin
vietnam was merely a blip on the
radar screen for most Americans when
Bob Hope made his rst trip there, 50
years ago this December. During World
War II, he had braved enemy bombing
raids, harrowing plane ights and roughhewn Army barracks in making his
celebrated tours to entertain U.S. troops
overseas. But he never faced more danger
than when he ventured into the jungles
of South Vietnam, where the war against
a communist insurgency backed by
North Vietnam was just heating up.
His arrival there, shortly before
Christmas 1964, was shrouded in secrecy
greater than that normally used to veil
the movements of generals and Cabinet
ofcers, UPI reported. His itinerary was
kept under tight wraps; for each show
a stage was set up in two different locations, to thwart potential attacks. When
Hope and his entourage were driven into
Saigon from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, they
arrived at their hotel to nd billows of
smoke, people running, sirens wailing.
Minutes before, a massive explosion had
gone off in a hotel just a block away. Two
years later, U.S. troops would capture
secret Viet Cong documents revealing
that the bomb had in fact been directed at
Hope. It had detonated 10 minutes early.
Hope would return to Vietnam for
nine straight Christmases, as the U.S.
commitment grew from 23,000 advisers
to more than half a million troops at the
wars peak. He brought along gorgeous
gals and corny gagsthough he could
also be cutting, reecting the cynicism
over a war that was proving complicated.
Last year you were all advisers, Hope
quipped on his second trip, in 1965. And
now that you see where its gotten us,
maybe youll keep your trap shut. The
high-rated NBC specials that chronicled
those tripshis January 1970 special
was the highest-rated TV show in history
to that pointwere irreplaceable documents of the Vietnam era. The sight of
Hope entertaining vast oceans of men
brought home more vividly than any58

thing on the evening news the enormity

of Americas commitment to the war.
But that commitment soon soured for
Hope, as it did for the rest of the nation.
His World War II and Korean War tours
had made him a national hero, but during Vietnam, his patriotic mission took
on an increasingly combative, partisan
tone. He grew more outspoken in support
of the war, often denouncing protesters as disloyal. On his 1969 Christmas
tour, when he tried to talk up President
Nixons plan to end the war, he got
booed. By his last trip to the regionin
December 1972, a few weeks before an
agreement to end the war was reached
he had alienated much of a generation.
A half-century later, partisan passions have faded, and the scope of Hopes
achievement is clearer. He may have
misjudged the nations mood and been
swayed by Nixon and the generals he
became close to. But he was one star who
recognized the power of his celebrity
and felt a calling to use it. His devotion
to the troops, along with tireless charitable work over a career that spanned 70
years, set a standard for public service in
Hollywood that forever changed what we
expect of entertainment icons.
Even before World War II, Hope had
established himself as a peripatetic dogooder. He was ubiquitous on the charity
circuit, appearing at a reported 562 benets in his rst two years in Hollywood.
When he hosted the Academy Awards in
1941, he was given a special plaque honoring his unselsh services for the motionpicture industry and for being the man
who did the most for charity.
During the war, Hope was just one of
many stars who went on USO-sponsored
tours to entertain the troops. And like
most of them, he thought his duty was
discharged when the war ended. But
three years later, he got a call from the
Secretary of the Air Force relaying a request from President Truman that Hope
take a troupe to Berlin, where the Allies
were embarked on an airlift to break the

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Hope in Wonsan,
Korea, with troops of
the Armys X Corps,
October 1950

Soviet blockade of the divided city. His

Christmas 1948 trip reafrmed Hopes
status as the Pentagons go-to guy for rallying morale. And after NBC televised his
1954 trip to Greenland to visit a Strategic
Air Command post on New Years Eve,
Hopes holiday toursand the TV shows
documenting thembecame an annual
tradition that lasted nearly two decades.
There was, to be sure, a careerist aspect
to Hopes public service. His Christmas
tours were great for his image, drew
spectacular ratings and brought him the
kind of big, easy-to-please audiences that
he craved like an addict. But that doesnt
invalidate the work he did or the effect
it had in Hollywood. I can remember a
day when Hollywood didnt think much
about serious things, columnist Hedda
Hopper wrote after accompanying Hopes
1957 tour of Asia. I remember the time
of the mammoth Christmas party, the
$5 Christmas card and the exchange of
valuables which meant Yuletide in the
movie colony. I remember too the rst
Christmas ... when someone reminded
us what we owed the rest of the world.
The time was 1943 and, you guessed it,
the someone was Bob Hope.
Hopes causes and conservative political views were different from those that
motivate many stars today. But hes the
one who paved the way for celebrities
to be taken seriously when they make
political endorsements and critiquesor
work for sexual-abuse victims, starving
African children or Louisiana hurricane
victims. Theres a direct link between
Hope and the globe-trotting activism of
George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Oprah
Winfrey and Sean Penn.
Clooney acknowledged as much when
he accepted the Bob Hope Humanitarian
Award, given to him by the Television
Academy at the 2010 Emmys. He took a
moment to praise the awards namesake
for his charitable work and for embodying the best version of the term celebrity.
It was, perhaps, required rhetoric for a
high-minded moment of Hollywood selfcongratulation. But in Hopes case, it had
the advantage of being true.

Zoglin is Times theater critic and the author

of Hope: Entertainer of the Century, published Nov. 4 by Simon & Schuster
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Reviews
MUSIC

All Good Things

Must End

MOVIES

A Grief History of Love. Stephen and Jane

Hawking soldier on in The Theory of Everything
By Richard Corliss

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of Stephen and Janes 30-year marriage. Theory

nds its saving nuances in the story of a vigorous
young man transformed by disease into his wifes
invalid child. Bodily degeneration is one scientic
fact Stephen ignores with a mulish cheerfulness,
even as he takes for granted Janes delaying of her
own scholarly goals in order to tend and fend for
him. (She eventually earned a Ph.D. in medieval
Spanish poetry.) He can grasp the complexities of
the cosmos more easily than he can Janes need for
male friendship with her choirmaster Jonathan
Hellyer Jones (Charlie Cox). And as Stephens view
of the universe evolves, so does his take on the immutability of marriage. A pretty nurse (Maxine
Peake) can have that effect on a theory.
Although Marsh, who won an Oscar for his
documentary Man on Wire, overdoes the visual
reworks, hes attentive to telling domestic details
that let his actors breathe inside their characters.
Redmayne, himself a Cambridge grad, splendidly
reveals both Stephens grand resolve and peculiar
blind spots. But the lm gives Jones (Oxford) a
chance to take control of its emotional center, and
she seizes it with spectacular subtlety. She proves
that behind this Great Man movie is a woman
an actresswhos every bit her mans equal.

NOLAN FEENEY

time November 17, 2014

T H E T H E O R Y O F E V E R Y T H I N G : F O C U S F E AT U R E S

hollywood, like stephen hawking, has a

theory of everything, at least in the run-up to
Oscar night in February. To compete successfully
for major Academy Awards, a lm should be a truelife portrait of an exceptional man who struggles
in a noble quest against impossible odds. After
A Beautiful Mind, Milk, The Kings Speech and Lincoln,
the Great Man Theory ourishes anew in two
biopics about brilliant Cambridge mathematicians
with phenomenal achievements despite physical and social impediments. The Imitation Game,
about Alan Turing, the gay genius who helped
win World War II by breaking Germanys Enigma
code, opens Nov. 28 and will earn awards galore
for its star, Benedict Cumberbatch. For now, we
have Hawkings tale, The Theory of Everything.
Struck by motor neuron disease at 23 and given
just two years to live, Hawking (Eddie Redmayne)
has survived and thrived for another half-century,
in large part because of the loving care of his wife
Jane (Felicity Jones). Directed by James Marsh and
written by Anthony McCarten from Janes 2007
memoir, the lm both adheres to and gently upends the conventions of the Great Man genre.
For a movie about the author of A Brief History
of Time, this is a doggedly chronological retelling

Norwegian duo
Ryksopp have always
stayed ahead of the
curve with their innovative electro-pop.
Soon theyll be doing
the same with how
they release it. Svein
Berge and Torbjorn
Brundtland arent
retiring, but they are
swearing off traditional
albums after dropping
their fth and nal
LP, aptly titled The
Inevitable End, on
Nov. 10. After that, its
all singles and small
batches of songs.
Perhaps they were
inspired by pop pixie
and fellow Scandinavian Robynno
stranger to unusual
releases herselfwith
whom they released
the experimental Do
It Again minialbum in
May. Or perhaps, as
the duo have suggested, theyve simply said
all they needed to say
in full-length recordings. That starts to
show on The Inevitable
End, which alternates
between the clubbanging exuberance
of 2009s Junior and
the chilled-out ambience of 2010s Senior.
While a handful of
sinister stompers (like
Skulls, a perfect anthem for video-game
villains) are as fresh
as ever, a somewhat
lagging second half
keeps the record from
becoming the true
parting gift that the
band intended.

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Tuned In
Former Friends star
Lisa Kudrow returns
as former TV star
Valerie Cherish

Her Second Act,

Take 2. The
Comeback comes
back sharp as ever
By James Poniewozik

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50-ish and doing the career mathis selfnancing a reality pilot, hoping to control
her narrative and sell it to Bravo, which is
spinning C-listers into 14-karat gold.
Midshoot, she gets word that Paulie G
is making a dramedy for HBO, Seeing Red,
about a drug-addicted sitcom writer and
his battle with a chestnut-haired star
named Mallory. Shes ready to sueuntil
HBO casts her as the shows star, opposite
Seth Rogen, playing himself playing
the ctionalized Paulie G, all while the
reality crew keeps shooting. So its a show
about a show about a show about a show.
(You may want to draw a chart.)
Valerie gets a second second chance, at
the price of having to live inside Paulie Gs
head again. All, you can guess, does not go
well. The rst Comeback was an engrossing character study, but it spent a lot of
time shooting easy sh in the aquarium
of reality TV. This Comeback, searing but
empathetic and less heavy-handed, is
more about how women are treated as

Valerie Cherish now

handles fame like
a booby-trapped
treasure chest, never
sure where the poison
darts are hiding

quick-expiring commodities in Hollywood. Even HBO isnt exempt. Seeing

Red puts Valerie in a sex-fantasy scene,
anked by two young, nude women who
seem to fulll pay cables unspoken T&A
mandate. (One even has silver hair that
recalls Game of Thrones Daenerys.)
I watched the ve episodes HBO sent
around the time that Rene Zellweger, 45,
tripped the Internet chatter alarm over
her unrecognizable face, which was not
long after the summers doxing of stolen
nude photos of young actresses, including Jennifer Lawrence, 24. Valerie may
be grasping and desperate, but shes no
dummy: she knows how actresses enter
this cattle chute as hotties and exit as
jokes. Or at best, if theyre lucky, brave.
Kudrow again gives a staggering,
microcalibrated performance; she lets
every insult and disappointment icker
across Valeries face even as she brazens
past them. What seems like denial,
Kudrow shows, is also a savvy strategy.
We mock actresses for putting on false
faces, literally and guratively. But thats
how Valerie Cherish surviveseven if it
means dressing up in a green-screen suit
to play herself morphing into a monster
in another Paulie Gscripted fantasy
sequence. Maybe its degradation, but its
degradation on HBO! If this business is
going to make you into a monster regardless, you might as well enjoy your claws.
time November 17, 2014

HBO

in the new season of the comeback

(HBO, begins Nov. 9), a reporter tells
actress Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow)
that her latest TV performance is brave.
The compliment terries Valerie, as if she
had just been told that the doctor wants
to discuss her test results. Her response:
Usually, braveyou use that when an
actress is playing a man or not wearing
makeup or gained 50 pounds.
If you watched the rst season in 2005,
you know why shes skittish. We met
Valerie then as a 40-ish has-been TV star,
cast as a sassy aunt (named Aunt Sassy)
in a doomed sitcom on the condition that
she shoot a reality show about the experience. She thinks shes getting a lifeline,
but shes given only enough videotape to
hang herself. The shows sexist head writer, Paulie G (Lance Barber), makes her
character a batty-old-lady clich, while
she demands to be treated like the star
she isnt anymore. Their diva-vs.-d-bag
clashes are caught on tape, with Valerie
edited to be the bad guy. Now, after her
media gaslighting, she handles fame like
a booby-trapped treasure chest, never
sure where the poison darts are hiding.
Its become routine to say The Comeback, canceled after one season, was
before its time. Really, it was smack-dab
on its time. It aired as reality shows were
dominating the top 10. Its caustic humor was the American, female-centric
analogue of Ricky Gervais 200103 The
Ofce. (It came out the same year the
gentler American remake of The Ofce
did.) Valeries deluded attempt to walk on
air, Wile E. Coyotelike, over the gulf between her aspirations and her reality was
hilarious and poignant. But it was also
painful, and thats a tough sell any year.
Yet somehow, Kudrow and co-creator
Michael Patrick King sold HBO on The
Comebacks comeback, and this version
is worth the wait. In 2014, Valerienow

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the Game of
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including Peter
Dinklage and
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signed on
through a
likely seventh
season.

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topless photo, meant to parody the Russian Presidents horseback pose

QUICK TALK

Gillian Jacobs

S Starbucks

announced it will
start delivering
coffee and
food in select
markets next
year.

The 32-year-old actress is best

known for a cult-hit network sitcom
(Community), but shes about to
be everywhereincluding Yahoo
(Communitys new home) and HBO
(for a Girls arc). But rst: a lead role
in Life Partners, a movie about
co-dependent best friends that hits
video-on-demand services Nov. 6.
nolan feeney
Your Life Partners love interest is
played by Adam Brody, who is now
married to your co-star Leighton
Meester. Was that weird on set?

S Actor Jason

Biggs asked his

490,000 Twitter
followers to help
him nd his lost
dog, Gina; they
were reunited
within a day.

S Paul Reubens
conrmed that
a new Pee-wee
Herman movie
is in the works.
Its going to be
amazing, he
promised.

I have every right to

show I have a better
body than Putin.

At no point did Leighton or

Adam make it awkwardIm
just a nervous Nellie. Were
also actors, so were used to
this weird job in which we
kiss people who are not our
signicant others. What
can you reveal about your
upcoming role on Girls? I

dont want to get in trouble

with Lena [Dunham], so
how about this: theres an
episode where I wear a full
set of pajamas as day wear.
Sounds tough. Its the most
comfortable costume Ive
ever worn. With all of your
upcoming projects and the success of Gillian Flynns Gone Girl, is
this the Year of the Gillians? Wait,

is she Gillian [with a hard G] or Gillian [with a soft G]? Because thats
the great American debate. Shes
[hard G] Gillian, like you. She is?!
Yeah! Oh, my God, Im so excited
to know shes a hard-G Gillian.
There arent very many of us.

ON MY
RADAR

X The
Comeback

Im such a
cheerleader for
that show. Its
scarily, sadly
accurate.

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ROUNDUP

Weirdest
College
Classes
The University of Pennsylvania recently announced Wasting Time
on the Internet, a new
course that will require
students to stare at
the screen for three
hours, only interacting
through chat rooms,
bots, social media and
listservs, according
to an ofcial description. And as you might
imagine, the Internet
has wasted plenty of
time poking fun at it.
But Penn isnt the rst
college to experiment
with unconventional
classes. Here, a look a
six others:

POLITICIZING
BEYONC
This Rutgers
gender-studies
class, introduced
in 2010, aims to
assess U.S. class,
racial, gender, and
sexual politics
through the music
and career of
Beyonc.

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T Fireball,
the popular
cinnamonavored whiskey,
was recalled
in several
countries for
containing
a chemical
sometimes used
in antifreeze.

T A 26-yearold woman
successfully
crowdfunded
her Halloween
Uber ride; as a
result of surge
pricing, she
claimed, the
20-minute trip
cost $362.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME To capture the feeling of longing for home, the late American photographer Larry Sultan spent
roughly two years hiring migrant day laborers to shoot on the outskirts of California suburbs as here, in 2008s Antioch
Creekthat reminded him of his own childhood wanderings. Selections from the series, titled Homeland, are on display at
Los Angeles County Museum of Art from Nov. 9 through March 22.

ZOMBIES IN
POPULAR MEDIA
This Columbia
College Chicago
course uses
zombie movies and
comics to explore
societal issues
like how people
relate to and trust
one another in
times of need.

JOY OF GARBAGE
This Santa
Clara University
class explores
the science of
decomposition,
the ecoconsequences of
trash and more.
Field trips include
landlls and
sewage-treatment
plants.

THE SCIENCE OF
HARRY POTTER
This Frostburg
State University
science course
answers physics
questions with a
nod to Hogwarts.
For example:
Could genetic
engineering create
a three-headed
dog?

MAPLE SYRUP:
THE REAL THING
This Alfred
University seminar
explores the
history and
mechanics of
maple syrup
production.
And yes, it also
involves making
and eating some
sweet treats.

UNDERWATER
BASKET-WEAVING
The old idiom for
an easy elective
is now an actual
classalbeit
a recreational,
not-for-credit
oneoffered at
schools like Reed
and University of
California, San
Diego.

T All of Taylor
Swifts albums
have been
removed from
the streaming
service Spotify,
per her labels
request.

T Papa Johns

newest menu
item is a pizza
topped with
Fritos and
chili. I cant
believe I waited
30 years to do
it, the chains
founder said.

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THE AWESOME COLUMN

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sometimes, in an occasional, passing ight of
fancy, I innocently wonder
what it would be like to be
married to a woman other
than my lovely wife Cassandra, whom
I love very much. These thoughts occur
rarely, like whenever a woman mentions
me in a tweet, Im watching a lm that has
actresses in it or Im in a large ofce building where some of the workers are female.
A few weeks ago, at my 5-year-old sons
soccer game, I briey wondered what it
would be like if instead of Laszlo, one of his
teammates were my son. For the purposes
of this column, lets call this kid Gabe,
since thats his name and I have no idea
what his last name is. Gabe is the best soccer player not only on our team but in our
entire league and possibly on the planet.
Gabe is way better at soccer than I am,
which I know from trying to play goalie
against him in practice. He is also better
than me at chess, French and celebrating
after scoring a goal that none of his teammates has any idea about. I picture us
spending weekends watching professional
cycling, playing chess, eating obscure
cheeses and making fun of the other kids
on his team.
This is not the rst time Ive wondered

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more clearly. Ive had clients whose children have severe developmental issues,
and theyve said, Id never tell anyone this,
but when I see parents with normal kids, I
feel jealous, and I hate that I feel that way,
and Im only telling you because youre my
therapist. Really, as though theres just a
continuum between severe developmental issues and being average at soccer.
My mom wondered if perhaps I was
expressing a more common feeling incorrectly. Maybe you sometimes look
at another kid and think, I wish Laszlo
were like that so his life would be better. I
would sometimes look at another kid who
was more outgoing and social and think,
Joel would be happier if he were more like
that. And my life would be easier if I didnt
have to drag him to parties, talk him
through his fears and try to get him to ask
for his own balloon. I was starting to be
very glad I had Laszlo.
I knew one person who rarely lied, so I

asked Laszlo, who follows me to whatever

room I go to and often cries if I leave my
home ofce for a meeting, if he ever felt
like he wanted a different father. Maybe
once in a while, but not a lot, he said. So I
asked him who would possibly be a better
father than I am. Phil, he said, about our
screenwriter friend who wrote Wreck-It
Ralph. Then Laszlo hit me where it hurt
most. Hes funnier, he said. Then, seeing my face, he added, Youre funny. But
youre not superfunny.
I hugged Laszlo tight and thanked him.
Because while I can logically imagine trading him for a different kid, its way too late.
Ive become emotionally dependent on seeing him run behind the kids on the eld
while nervously chewing on his shirt collar and calming him during water breaks.
Or sitting with him and watching Singin
in the Rain, the only movie or TV show hell
watch because its not at all scary. And
nding out that hes smiling because hes
imagining washing behind his own future
sons ear. The only thing I actually want to

change is to be much, much funnier.

time November 17, 2014

I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y T O M A S Z W A L E N TA F O R T I M E

what it would be like to have a different kid. There was Livia, from my sons
preschool class, who at 3 could read, write,
paint pastorals and kick me out of the
classroom after I dropped Laszlo off by
cheerfully saying See ya later! while
not-so-subtly opening the door. There was
Goldie, who while making bead necklaces
on a table at preschool sifted out wisdom
to me in the style of an excitable, blowsy
Boca Raton divorce. Although I dont
think its legally binding, Im pretty sure I
agreed to buy a timeshare from her.
These feelings about hypothetical alternate realities make total sense to me. I
would have completely loved whatever kid
I got exactly as much, so it would be better
to pour myself into the most genetically

impressive being possible. We choose

our spouses, and if we sometimes want
to trade them in, we certainly have to feel
that way about these little people we had
no say in picking. Sure, theres a genetic
bond, but Laszlo is only half me. My genes
are 100% my parents, and Id drop them in
a grab bag and take my chances.
But just to make sure these feelings
were normal, I asked my mother if she
ever wished any of my friends were her
son. No. No. No, she said emphatically.
I loved you so much. And you were so
perfect for me. That made sense, since I
am so amazing. I certainly remember I
would like to have a different husband,
she added, laughing about the divorce I
suffered through. You could see why Id
reach in the grab bag.
But my mom was a family therapist
for 30 years, so I asked if lots of people
saddled with children who werent me
told her about kids they wished they had.
I cant say that what youre saying to me
resonates, she said, before remembering

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10 Questions

British jester John Cleese explains

how to grow up funny and when he
expects to be pushing up the daisies
In your memoir, So, Anyway,
you say that what gave you
your sense of humor is that
your mom and dad didnt get
on. How does that work?

Psychiatrist Robin Skynner

said that what makes people
creative is having to reconcile
different views of the world.
For example, in a very cohesive culture like Japan, in
an odd kind of way people often are not very creative. But
its a very harmonious place to
live. Whereas if you live in a
very individualistic culture,
like America is frequently,
theres a creative culture but
you tend to have a rather larger prison population.
Was your mother that bad?

She was very, very good at all

aspects of running the house.
There was no emotional empathy between us. And she
was a very neurotic woman
who ruled by fear. Dad was
scared of her tantrums.
Are most comedians introverts, like you?

Did you really think of calling

Monty Pythons Flying Circus

68

Graham [Chapman] suggested

it. It wasnt one of the better titles. I liked A Horse, a Spoon and
a Basin, which was Michaels
suggestion.
Youre hilariously horrible about [director
and Python member] Terry Gilliam
in this book. Do
you not get on?

Hes always been

much, much ruder
about me than any
of the other Pythons. I didnt see
any reason,

morally, to hold back. I was

particularly annoyed by a remark he made about my wife
when I got married for the
fourth time, although hed
never met her.
Does anything reliably make
you laugh?

The sad thing about comedy is

that if you spend 50 years doing it, you do nish up knowing most of the jokes. And if
you dont know the exact joke,
you know something
pretty close to it. So
there isnt the sense of
discovery that you
get when you were
younger.

make fun of certain groups.

Political correctness started

out as a very good idea. But it
got latched onto by people
who hang onto a small number of truths. In my stand-up,
Ill make jokes about Germans, Canadians, the English
and the Frenchwhich
Americans particularly enjoy.
And then I say, Theres this
Mexican joke. And the place
freezes. Why is everyone uncomfortable? Is that because
the Mexicans need particular
protection? Are they not capable of looking after themselves? There is a lot of
condescension in it.
But wheres the line?

In the book, you

express regret that
we can no longer

You cant be absolutely clear

about where a line should be
drawn. You can put jokes
along a continuum from nasty
and paranoid to jokes about
the human condition. Thats
the best type of humorwere
all in it together. All jokes are
critical of human behavior.
You called a recent show the
Last Chance to See Me
Before I Die Tour. Are you
overpromising?

Mum died at 101, and Dad

killed himself with cigarettes.
But I am the most unt now
that Ive ever been in my life.
When youve got $20 million
to pay in alimony and youre
in your 70s, you have to do an
awful lot of work. You have to
go onstage every night and say
the same thing that you said
last night.
Youre on your fourth wife. Is
this the sticker?

Yeah, I think so. You probably

want me to be funny, but I
really like her.
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No. I can think of one or two

who are very miserable when
theyre not on, and theyre
very tiring to be with because
they have to be funny all the
time. But the ones who can relax usually tend to be perfectly nice people. If you look at
CEOs, because of the nature of
the job, theyre much more
likely to be sociopaths than
comedians are.

something else, notably The

Toad Elevating Moment?

Cleese collects
stuffed animals, as
does his wife.
They make me
smile, he says.

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