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...miraculously, or suspiciously, spanned those two worlds. A tea server, or chai wallah, for a telephone marketing company, he has won a fortune on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The show's host (Anil Kapoor) is so skeptical of Jamal's ability to answer the questions that he has policemen try to torture the truth out of the lad. His explanations all relate to his hard life as a homeless orphan in the company of his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) and, not often enough, with the winsome, consistently abused Latika (Freida Pinto). Salim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slumdog Millionaire: A Dark Indian Epic Full of Life | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...when asked about his plans for making fun of the President-Elect. Regardless of your political leanings, the prospect of spending four years trying to lampoon a President whose response to “Boxers or briefs?” is “I don’t answer those humiliating questions,” is not inviting. Making fun of Obama is a serious challenge. He doesn’t mispronounce his words; he shows no excessive interest in interns; he once gave his wife a fist-bump, but it wasn’t a big deal...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: No, We Can’t (Laugh)! | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...even go there. You know, it's a very - it's a simple question. You would think I could answer it. I can't even - it's a distraction. It's a distraction. And as I said, Senator Obama tells us to keep focused. And as Michelle likes to say - not getting ahead of ourselves." - When asked by CBS' Katie Couric in August how she would feel if Obama won the presidential election (CBS Evening News with Katie Couric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valerie Jarrett | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...did…what? The only answer can be “win an election.” But I hardly think that Obama’s mantra of “Yes We Can” referred only to trouncing Sen. John McCain. He meant that, yes, we can—if you’ll forgive the talking point—bring change to government. That work hasn’t even begun yet, and its success is far from certain. Last Tuesday was never going to fix the problems of the past eight years, but most...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: No, We Haven’t | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...culture - to see they way they've been destroyed. It leads one to say, there are many things for which one can blame the U.S., but the destruction of Muslim culture by other Muslims is a self-inflicted wound. And it's a grievous wound, I think." But the answer, he says, is not necessarily to end religion. There is, he said, "to my mind a more beautiful approach to the world." He added, "the answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it." And that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God for the Godless: Salman Rushdie's Secular Sermon | 11/8/2008 | See Source »

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