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...doing, Rice appeared to accept a more restrictive standard than Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been trying--so far in vain--to get an exemption for CIA officers in the legislation that Arizona Senator John McCain has pushed to ban torture and other inhumane treatment. A senior State Department official denied any rift between Rice and Cheney and insisted Rice was merely "clarifying existing policy." But two senior Administration officials interpreted Rice's increasingly pointed statements as a clear sign to the bureaucracy back home as well as to allies in Europe that her more sweeping restrictions were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Covering Its Tracks | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...dramatic complexity. With Morgan, the producer behind Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby, and a $10 million budget, Chan assembled a starry cast: Taiwanese-Japanese icon Takeshi Kaneshiro, rising mainland actress Zhou Xun and Jacky Cheung, the one Heavenly King of Canto-pop who can really sing. But would audiences accept a big-budget Asian film without a flying kick or aerial swordfight? And was Chan?a Hong Konger best known for delicate, tightly-observed dramas such as Comrades, Almost a Love Story?the man to bring this improbable project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolute Love | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

...implications of the latest information available in brain research. Harvey Bollich Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S. Changes of Life Your article on menopause [Nov. 14] was so well written that everyone could understand it. It is not easy and simple to face that change in our life, but we must accept it without falling into depression. It is true that with therapy and medical help things can really change and we can look at life through different eyes. Adriana Giacomini Donato Colloredo di Prato, Italy

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Streets of Fire | 12/9/2005 | See Source »

...Star” were proclaiming a Lachey/Simpson offspring in the womb even after the split was made public, Gawker.com ripped off the band-aid months ago, with headlines such as, “We Don’t Care Who Says What. Nick and Jessica Are Fucking Over. Just Accept It.”Keep listening, oh little ones, for there are more lessons you must learn. Once you’ve made it through a brisk morning breakfast of blogs, you will be craving further sustenance. Now comes the time to evaluate the fame, which is exactly what they...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Some Like It Pop: Blogs are the New "US Weekly" | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...national and international trend sweeping the university circuit: recognition of the cultural, historical, and academic importance of film. The Film Studies at Harvard program, which has been under construction for several decades, was finally cemented last year. At one point Harvard, like many other established universities, struggled to accept film as a credible academic pursuit. Now, however, the university officially recognizes the value of what Timothy Corrigan, the University of Pennsylvania’s Director of Cinema Studies, calls in an e-mail “a central cultural and intellectual force in society.” The formerly avant...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Easy Riding for Film Studies Concentrators | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

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