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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It's possible my love for him will return. It may take a Lassie moment in which he saves my child from a grizzly, but such an encounter is not so likely in New Jersey. In the meantime, he persists. The dog follows me like a bad smell, settling at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demoting the Dog | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

His previous film as writer-director, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, was supposed to be about how a nice fellow who'd never managed to have sex triumphs over the prodding and baiting of his jerky friends (including Rogen and Rudd) and finds a compatible mate. But The Girl (Catherine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Knocked Out by 'Knocked Up' | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

NASCAR, by contrast, seems, despite all the grease, clean. Wholesome. As it roars round the track, it climbs ever higher in the public's affection and esteem. It celebrates things about the American character--power, speed, courage, risk taking, fun--that we are reluctant to surrender, at least psychically. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Road: Bill France Jr. (1933-2007) | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

Breath. There are two Korean films among the 21 in competition for the Palme d'Or, and both have a scene in which an obsessive woman visits a killer in jail and expresses her sympathy for him. The first and lesser of the pair is from Kim Ki-duk, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mean Men and Mad Women | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

In his long march to the French presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy pitted himself against the moldy pieties of an obsolete status quo - much as the leftist revolutionaries of May 1968 had done. Some 19 million voters followed him. In a terse speech on May 6 after his overwhelming victory, Sarkozy said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patriot Gains | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

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