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This phrase you use as the title of your book is the way Mma Ramotswe has referred to herself, before. In other words, she's a little on the big side. When you were first conceiving the character, was she always going to be "traditionally built?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander McCall Smith | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Yes, she was. I thought of her, insofar as I saw her - and when it comes to the character, I'm not a particularly visual writer in that I never see their faces, though I do see their general presence - as comfortably padded, well-padded. And that's where I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander McCall Smith | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Marvel, you see, is working on another Origins take, Magneto, about the early lives of Eric Lensherr (who in the trilogy was played as a middle-aged man by Ian McKellen) and Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart, who makes a guest appearance here). It's not surprising, then, that the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wolverine: There Ain't No Sanity Claws | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

What holds it together is Jackman, an actor who suggests the decency that is meant to be at the core of his character. As Logan struggles to tame his Hulk-like temper, so Jackman works to fit his friendly, temperate persona into the action-film superhero mold. The Australian star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wolverine: There Ain't No Sanity Claws | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

The notions of honor and character to most Harvard students sound old-fashioned, if not completely absurd. Yet, at one point, such concerns formed the center of a truly moral education. Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics listed “greatness of soul,” or ?...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: That Nameless Virtue | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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