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...Kylie Minogue); Add some folks who are quirky enough to amuse but not so bizarre they creep people out (Amy Winehouse, Gossip's Beth Ditto); and then toss in a few of the too-cool-to-care crowd to sit in a corner, get drunk and mock the whole affair (Arctic Monkeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amy Winehouse's Big Night Out | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...longer-term political cost to the government is likely to be very severe. Governments, like financial centers, need to be jealous of their reputation. The U.K.'s reputation as a financial center is sufficiently soundly based for it to recover from the blow inflicted by the Northern Rock affair. Whether the government's reputation can recover is far more doubtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failure After Failure | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...hosted by Argentine Ambassador Takacs, an extraordinary accident of timing by the Argentines, if it was an accident. With Kirkpatrick at the function was Deputy Secretary of State Walter J. Stoessel, the highest-ranking U.S. career diplomat. Trying to explain the embarrassment, the State Department said only that the affair had been scheduled long before the invasion. British Ambassador Henderson noted the attendance of Kirkpatrick and Stoessel at the dinner and declared sarcastically: "We are not thrilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Off on the High Seas | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...Serrell), a young actor confused about his sexual orientation and attempting to reconcile a budding public life with a newfound relationship with Alex (Johnathan Orsini), a New York callboy whom Mitchell orders to his hotel room in a drunken stupor. As Mitchell and Alex become increasingly involved in their affair, Ellen (Angie Jepson), Alex’s catty girlfriend, and Diane (Maureen Keiller), Mitchell’s agent, become entangled in the events, which begin to spiral out control under the press’ watchful eye. Certainly, when Beane wants laughs, he is capable of conjuring them. His greatest creation...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Little Dog Laughed' Too Comedic to be Taken Seriously | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...unnoticed trader thus became a romantic dragon-slayer. A few days ago, he told Agence France Presse, “I never had any personal ambition in this affair. The aim was to earn money for the bank…You lose your sense of the sums involved when you are in this kind of work.…You get a bit carried away...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: When It Hits the Fan | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

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