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Dates: during 2000-2009
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In strong supporting roles in The Green Mile, Matchstick Man, Snow Angels and the Brad Pitt Jesse James movie, and starring as Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Rockwell has honed his specialty of runty ranters. His standard character is the kind of highly caffeinated punk who, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon: A Superior Space Oddity | 6/14/2009 | See Source »

A key factor in changing the equation appears to have been Ahmadinejad's character assassinations of leading political figures and, especially, his insinuation that Mousavi's wife, Professor Zahra Rahnavard, had improperly gained her academic job. "That may have been the turning point," said former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead of Iran Election, President's Rivals Gain Hope | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

Calderón argues that the ability of Mexicans to deal with this challenge will be crucial to luring tourists back. Personally launching the Vive México campaign in his presidential palace, the President focused on selling Mexican character. "Let us tell the whole world that we are a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns, Germs and Recession: The Curse on Mexican Tourism | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

The explosion came, appropriately enough, with Achmed the Dead Terrorist, a character Dunham debuted in late 2007 on his DVD Spark of Insanity. Achmed, a bigheaded Halloween skeleton, is a failed suicide bomber. (He had a "premature detonation.") He has not yet come to terms with his demise - he just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Puppet Master | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

"For the last time, I'm not your messiah," groans the title character in the 1979 comedy The Life of Brian. (They crucify him, anyway.) There's an echo of Brian's panicked renunciation in a shakeup currently underway in Tibetan Buddhism - in this case, nobody's laughing, although the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a 'Chosen' Tibetan Lama Says No Thanks | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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