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...commodity. The women tell me of places where I can go to find the men selling the cartes: the stadium, the gas station on the corner, all places where you go to meet the right people. It's clear relief has come hand in hand with Haiti's age-old, seemingly death-defying corruption. "Let the white people give out the coupons. The Haitians will just take them and sell them," says Josmen Jean, 25, who also made the journey for her 50 lbs bag of rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Port-au-Prince, the Smell of Death, the Odor of Corruption | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...show is actually undoing age-old stereotypes and replacing them, for better or worse, with a progressive, and even revolutionary, model of prima donna that is more Lady Gaga than Victoria Gotti ... The trash-talking, overly tanned ladies of Jersey Shore pick fistfights, refuse to cook or clean up and shuffle around in slippers and sweats while the guys in the house preen and put on lip gloss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...write about the importance of looks for women on TV. Is that a hard thing to deal with? Yeah, it is. You know what? It's an age-old problem in this business. You can get bitter, and you can get angry, and you can be mad about the reality, but it exists and I do my best to sort of take as good care of myself as I can. I'm 42 years old, and there are certain things I can't control. The challenge is to try and look great, yes, but also to try and transcend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

This year, the HRO leadership has opted to use a politically-correct, alternative moniker for that age-old tradition known as "Secret Santa." The festivities will now be called 'Super Sexy Secret Secular Santa,' according to HRO percussionist Elizabeth C. Bloom...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are You My Super Sexy Secret Secular Santa? Oh My! | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...movie of this decade that didn't costar Brad Pitt. The Box certainly didn't measure up to recent Diaz openings, even middling ones. But, like Goats, it cost only about $25 million to make. And Warner Bros. didn't exactly lavish big bucks on marketing the movie. The age-old industry parlance applies to The Box: "It wasn't released - it escaped." (Read TIME's Precious review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Carol Wins — and Loses — the Weekend | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

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