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The convergence of an Oscar winner (Voight), an Oscar nominee (Norton), an Oscar wanna-be (Farrell) and a Tony winner (Ehle) ought at least to provide solid acting, and in stretches it manages that. Voight, navigating some dreadful dialogue, doesn't make a misstep; Norton executes his usual business of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Fast Takes from Toronto | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

Suspicions of fixed bouts arise occasionally, but lately the commitment and character of ranking sumo wrestlers has come under question. Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu begged off from participating in a tour of Japan, citing an injury, but he was then filmed playing soccer at home in Mongolia, earning him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal in Sumo Land | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

All this has combined to make the governability of Pakistan and the character of its latest leader matters of intense concern far from the mountains of the Hindu Kush. Al-Qaeda has "hundreds of training camps" scattered throughout the region, says a Western official in Pakistan. CIA director Michael Hayden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Central Front | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

As they say, it's not the crime but the cover-up that could be most damaging. Wooten is not a highly sympathetic character - something Palin knows firsthand - and the public could perhaps understand why Palin wouldn't want him carrying a gun around. But Monegan is the one who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin and Troopergate: A Primer | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

Clever, articulate, well educated, socially adept, politically astute, photogenic, charming, charismatic, Cameron does fill all the slots - bar one. His charmed life (the gilded youth of this son of a wealthy stockbroker; the education at that most élite of British schools, Eton College, followed by Oxford University; the meteoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cameron: UK's Next Leader? | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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