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...told that Clinton was the inevitable nominee, Democrats in New Hampshire weren't much in the mood to be told that her candidacy was toast, that their votes were futile. In the final hours, the undecideds, who often end up too torn among candidates or too busy to bother voting, made their way to the polls and carried Clinton to victory. Obama got 37%, just as the polls projected. But the mantra of change that had turned seasoned journalists into giddy ballerinas in the days after Iowa did not win over the supporters of recently departed candidates Joe Biden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Voters' Revenge | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...with it that is entirely western in style and cut. There is no single set of values to be catered to. Half a dozen shops and hawkers' stalls sell all sorts of women's underwear in a back alley, away from prying looks. It doesn't seem to bother the shoppers that the salespeople are all men. But there are also carts hawking undies, where elderly grandmothers cast disapproving looks at young girls in short skirts while themselves shopping for lingerie in full public view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Microcosm of How India Shops | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

...show here. As Carter gives life lessons to Edward, Freeman gives tips in underacting to Nicholson. But the course doesn't take. Jack - editorializing with every inflection, his eyebrows now permanently arched, his face bloated so that he now resembles the eternal supporting player Elisha Cook Jr. - doesn't bother to occupy a role anymore. Instead, he plays Jack Nicholson, the breezy celebrity who sits up front at the Oscars or the Lakers. He preened all the way through The Departed; he seemed to be doing a silent running commentary on his character in About Schmidt. Maybe not since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Myths: The Bucket List and The Savages | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

...possible threat to the Party's leadership that comes from any organized group. "On the whole the authorities don't really care what people believe," he says. "What they are afraid of [is people] getting together and meeting in secret and not registering [with the government]. It doesn't bother them that people believe in Jesus. It bothers them that they don't want to register and they don't know who [the] leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's New Bestseller: The Bible | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...foster theater studies. The A.R.T. never really connected with the rest of the University, and I still think it doesn’t.” For the most part, that same de-institutionalized, extracurricular spirit has persisted despite the campus presence of theater professionals. WHY BOTHER?But this situation has not always been seen as a negative one.Playwright Arthur L. Kopit ’59 , who wrote “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad,” which premiered...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Drama’s 300-Year Struggle | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

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