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...useful to boast about one's belief in Jesus and the Christian God, and political suicide to mention any faith that is focused in a different direction. Can you imagine a candidate for President glowingly referring to an uplifting feeling at a full-moon ritual or celebration of Tu B'shvat? Sadly, what really should be the valuable part of any faith - namely, the way one's integrity guides one to live it - is not something that needs advertising. Deborah Greymoon, Cascade, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...atonement for it, this muscular saga has Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) morphing into a more plausible 10-ft. green guy. The rooftop chases owe much to the Bourne movies, while the creature's romance-mismatch with stalwart Betty (Liv Tyler) suggests a pretty good remake of King Kong. B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About. | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...boundaries with pop, avant-garde and blues, here assembles an album of standards echoing her breakthrough Blue Skies (1988). A few tracks are a little too standard, but more often a languid beat kicks in, and Wilson's subtle phrasing, filled with cunning pauses, casts its steamy spell. B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About. | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...Obama's admission of the obvious was selectively applied. Even as he criticized the "game," his allies sent out e-mails announcing that the man leading McCain's vice presidential search, Arthur B. Culvahouse, was - you guessed it - a former lobbyist. To make matters even more complicated - and absurd - Culvahouse used to lobby for Fannie Mae, the rich and well-connected mortgage company where Johnson previously served as chairman and CEO. (Full disclosure: Time Warner, the parent company of TIME, is another of Culvahouse's former clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outrage Game Bites Obama | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

...front lines, helped bury the dead, and weathered Japanese onslaughts on their positions even after the island had been declared secure. According to Christopher Moore, the author of a book about African-Americans' myriad contributions during World War II, "thousands" more helped fashion the airstrips from which U.S. B-29 aircrafts could launch and return from air assaults on Tokyo, about 760 miles northwest. Hosting that air base, Moore says, was Iwo Jima's primary strategic importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Were African-Americans at Iwo Jima? | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

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