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To his credit, Obama has done little to encourage this frenzy, at least since the election. He's all ironic detachment. Yet somehow that aloofness calls forth more reckless declarations of love from the besotted.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Town Overboard: A Conservative Gripe About Obamamania | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

The extraordinary story of how Israeli detectives built a case against Golan and his alleged cohorts is the subject of Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land by Nina Burleigh, a former TIME staffer who now writes for People. In fast, noir-ish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fraudulent Relics and the Brother of Jesus | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Bynum's dreamy, experimental debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, earned a 2004 National Book Award nomination. In her second book, her prose tacks traditional but sacrifices none of its lilting charm. Ms. Hempel is a seventh-grade English teacher besotted by her students but ambivalent about her profession; Bynum's portrayal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

Time has been least kind to Grey's Anatomy spin-off Practice (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.). After nine tepid episodes (and a subpar season of Grey's) last year, there's less reason than ever to care about the dramedies and quirky cases of sexy doctors at a ritzy "wellness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New TV Series — Last Year's Strike Victims — Get a Do-Over | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

If Foster was facing ruin, he appears to have retained to the end a veneer of decorum befitting an English gentleman. In interviews with the Telegraph and other papers, his neighbors were shocked to learn that Foster was in financial trouble at all. They described a genial man besotted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Puzzled By Mansion Murder | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

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