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...House, and then the Kazakhstani President will go to the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Kazakhstan's growing oil shipments to world markets, and its potential to emerge as a stable, modernized, predominantly Muslim but religiously tolerant state with a secular government in the volatile region, have obvious appeal for the Bush Administration - so much so that it tends to downplay the country's gagged media; the arbitrary arrests, exiles and murders of opposition leaders; its rubber-stamp political institutions and bogus elections; and rampant corruption, including a $78 million kickbacks-for-oil-rights case that has been pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming On Strong | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

Cheryl Knott, an associate professor in the anthropology department, offers the theory that creatures developed these anatomical innovations to appeal to members of the opposite sex. This seems to imply that their genes must be pretty superior if they can pass through the sieve of natural selection with such a glorious, if inconvenient, handicap...

Author: By James H. O'keefe | Title: Blackout Brilliance | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2006: Politics Are a Family Matter in Tennessee | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...seen plenty of shows with Lost's geek appeal, but their stories usually end with "... and it was soon canceled, to the dismay of its hard-core fans." The Prisoner, the first Star Trek series--even Twin Peaks went from phenom to flame-out faster than you can say, Who killed Laura Palmer? Lost is different. An unapologetically knotty, mass-market commercial hit, it demands commitment--and gets it. How did Lost escape the cult-show graveyard? Partly because it's just TV genius. But also because TV has changed--and because Lost changed TV. Many of the changes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Future of Television Is Lost | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

With Lost, he and Lindelof wrote a geeky mythology show with enough heart, humor and richness of character to appeal far beyond the Doctor Who convention set. There is Jack (Matthew Fox), a heartthrob doctor with unresolved father issues, and Locke (Terry O'Quinn), a paraplegic miraculously healed on the island. There is Hurley (Jorge Garcia), a likable sad sack who won the lottery playing a set of numbers--4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42--that we learn have mystic significance. There is a fugitive (Evangeline Lilly), a wisecracking con man (Josh Holloway), a heroin-addicted has-been rock star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Future of Television Is Lost | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

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