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...BUD SELIG, commissioner of Major League Baseball, insisting that the sport's new instant-replay system--which took effect on Aug. 28--will not be used for purposes other than to review disputed home runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...even closer to the wildlife at Discovery Cove, an Anheuser-Busch-owned day resort where the $289 admission includes all-you-can-drink beer. But the bottles of Bud Light Lime aren't the reason to go. The dolphins are. At first I was skeptical about swimming with a dolphin. At swims outside the U.S., the animals have been abused. But Discovery Cove's dolphins work only about two hours a day, according to head trainer Jesse Pottebaum. You'll learn a lot--almost too much--about dolphin anatomy (don't touch the "genital slit," we were told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orlando for Grownups | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...loud snap at this moment, it's the audience's credulity, as Swing Vote falls from agreeable fable into wan satire. Why 10 days? To show that the electoral process is a shameless sham in which politicians pretzel their principles to get elected. The two candidates come courting Bud. Drawing their own inferences from his cryptic remarks, the Republican (Kelsey Grammer) suddenly plumps for gay marriage, while the Democrat (Dennis Hopper) turns pro-life. The movie says these are decent men forced to reverse field by their Machiavellian advisers (Stanley Tucci as, essentially, Karl Rove; Nathan Lane as, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Election, Stupid | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...cynicism of Preston Sturges comedies, but not near those old masters as an entertainer or political guru, Stern suggests that the real hero is the ordinary Joe who goes to the polls and votes these rascals in. Swing Vote has aspirations to be Molly--or, in a pinch, Bud. But it's closer to the parties' idea men, trying to guess what the people want, then desperately laying it on. That leaves Costner, for all his charm and flinty ambiguity, a loser in this poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Election, Stupid | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...finally wins the Bud election. But given the film's ostensible celebration of independence, it would be nice if he voted for Nader. Then the whole sad charade--the electoral process--would have to start over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Election, Stupid | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

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