To Our Readers

At TIME, we have long believed there should be a clear distinction between our editorial and commercial sides, or what we often call Church and State. It is important to the integrity of both that the needs of our readers and our advertising clients are managed separately, though this doesnt mean that the Church staff and the State staff exist in isolation. We come together in a variety of circumstances, to celebrate each others successes, receive training on strange new software packages and plan our common future. But recently we have been brought closer for the very saddest of reasons: to...