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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...anything you're likely to see in the movies these days. The only major laugh line is supplied by Lord Mountbatten, that grandest of all modern courtiers. Recruited as a kind of bag man for the secret service, he receives the nasty photograph of the Princess, with the blithest of comments: "She always was a scalawag." But this picture is not after comedy, it is aiming for larger ironies. And delivers them effectively in the context of fast-paced and gripping crime drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bank Job is Sweaty and Suspenseful | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...mesmerized millions of listeners on five continents and ran for 58 years--the world's longest-running series with a single person as host. When Cooke died last week at 95, the English-speaking world said a melancholy good-night to a consummate reporter and the world's wisest, blithest uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Alistair Cooke | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...mesmerized millions of listeners on five continents and ran for 58 years?the world's longest-running series with a single person as host. When Cooke died last week at 95, the English-speaking world said a melancholy good-night to a consummate reporter and the world's wisest, blithest uncle. ?By Richard Corliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...could soon strike Earth, ruining what should be baseball's blithest month. Spring training is a time for hope, not dread; every team is tied for first, and each nonroster player can dream of starring in the majors. But in February, three weeks after President Bush made the war on steroids a priority in his State of the Union address, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the indictments of four men--two executives of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), track coach Remy Korchemny and Greg Anderson, a personal weight trainer whose clients include San Francisco Giants home-run king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Takes A Hit | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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