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...oral-argument day is likely to feel as though she has wandered into a Vatican conference room filled with adepts in Augustinian theology debating arcane questions in hurried Latin. The Justices are scarlet-capped cardinals; the law clerks are the brilliant new seminary graduates, their razor minds undulled by actual experience; the lawyers at the dais are the theologians commissioned to assist in plumbing the sacred texts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredibly Shrinking Court | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives." Someday we'll know whether the right to abortion will be chipped to nothing by the Roberts Court--or whether, as some legal theorists predict, the issue fades away with the arrival of further advances in contraception. As for the actual decision that provoked Ginsburg, it's a stretch to think that it will be central to the lives of women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredibly Shrinking Court | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...more violent version of the NFL (no fair catches, taunting encouraged) with more sex (cheerleaders in revealing outfits), but that's not really the product it has. After all, the only way to make football more violent than the NFL is to find MVP linebackers who were actually convicted of murder. As far as sex is concerned, those hot, skanky-looking cheerleaders in the XFL television ads were in fact pricey Los Angeles models who can't dance, while the actual XFL cheerleaders are former cheerleaders who can't dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashback: XFL's Fast-Mouth Football | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

Although Schulz appears in the play as a character portrayed by Matthew Glassman, Klein also draws upon actual objects surrounding his life, having come across many of Schulz’s drawings, etchings, and correspondence on a research trip to Poland...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Dreams’ Is a Daring Vision | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

Rather than a strict retelling of Cunanan's life, the theater has opted to fictionalize the story for dramatic purposes. Cunanan is now Danny Reyes, played by Daniel Torres, but anyone even vaguely familiar with the actual events will recognize the plotline. Like Cunanan, Reyes is a gay Filipino-American who attended a ritzy, exclusive school and who knew how to charm his way into the right circles. Reyes is driven by his father to excel and for a while he does get a taste of a life that lies beyond his family's means. But after his La Jolla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andrew Cunanan: The Musical! | 10/6/2007 | See Source »

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