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...them talk about protecting us - the mother protector and the father protector," says Renaud Gaultier, an industrial designer in Paris. "I have a mother and father; I'm an adult, and I don't need this infantile discourse." Gaultier says he'll drop an unmarked ballot into the box on May 6, and he won't be the only Bayrou adherent to exercise that civic protest against what he sees as a choice between second-raters. Such tactics may assuage the conscience, but they're unlikely to change the outcome of the May 6 vote; they even seem slightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal has the left and Sarkozy has the right | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...decade: Wicked. The musical prequel to the Wizard of Oz, told from the witches' point of view, was dismissed by most critics when it opened in the fall of 2003. But 3 1/2 years later, Wicked is regularly the highest-grossing show on Broadway, with three more companies setting box-office records around the country. And the show's most avid fans are tween girls, who have connected with its themes of friendship, prejudice and self-realization--identifying with Elphaba, the "wicked" witch who's actually just misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legally Blonde and Broadway's Girl Appeal | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Shockingly few peer-reviewed studies have been done on our type of union. We don't yet have our own box to check on the Census, even though we've been around for years. I'm actually the product of a mixed marriage. My father has an unlined face and thick, curly salt-and-pepper hair in his 70s. My mother--well, let's just say that when she comes to visit, the kids hide the broomstick and the big cooking pot. She tells folks my dad married her for her legs and her fortune. Coincidentally, these are the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Your Spouse is Hotter than You | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...summer the season of movie superheroes? No: supervillains. They get the plot spinning toward catastrophe; its their lurid schemes the hero must rise to defeat. Especially in sequels, which will dominate the box office this summer, all the ingenuity not expended on special effects goes into the creation of really nasty villains. Greed was good to villainous Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. To the producers of this summer's would-be blockbusters, bad is great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Villains: So Bad They're Good | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: “To the left, to the left. Everything you own in the box to the left...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Layla Amjadi | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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