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That's what's staying the same, but here's what's changed: As TV parents go, Beverly Hills, 90210's Jim and Cindy Walsh existed just one rung above the "mwa mwa"-speaking adults in the Charlie Brown cartoons. The Walsh parents had no inner life, no conflict, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Updating Beverly Hills, 90210 | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

As most Chinese media were celebrating Beijing's Olympics successes, a magazine named Southern Window - a highbrow biweekly with a circulation of 500,000 - broke from the pack. On the cover of the magazine's Aug. 11 issue, there is no photograph of the sparkling Bird's Nest stadium, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Accomplished. Now What? | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

With the Chinese media gushing over the success of the Olympics, the latest issue of Southern Window - a highbrow news magazine with a circulation of 500,000 - caught my eye. The cover illustration features a couple of law textbooks and a teacher with a wooden pointer giving instruction to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where China Goes Next | 8/25/2008 | See Source »

The bikini-clad beach volleyball dancers set quite a high bar, but we're with you, Claude, and so are many of the players. "I think women should wear a dress like tennis players, I think our dress is so boring, not sexy," said Wang. And if that doesn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sticky Business of Table Tennis | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

Djukanovic has played a leading role in most of his country's turbulent events over the past 20 years. With offhand pride, he says that his European colleagues now confide in him that Montenegro has become "boring." For diplomats, that is probably true. But for Peter Munk and the well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tivat: The Next Monaco | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

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