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...protracted life as pretty good. (At 52, Roberts is 35 years younger than the court's oldest Justice, John Paul Stevens, and is surely the first Chief Justice whose schedule has included back-to-school night at his children's grade school.) His combination of keen intelligence and undeniable charm is such that another of his college professors, the liberal lion Laurence Tribe, continues to extol Roberts' "wisdom" even as he laments the conservative course the Roberts court has taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredibly Shrinking Court | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...opted to fictionalize the story for dramatic purposes. Cunanan is now Danny Reyes, played by Daniel Torres, but anyone even vaguely familiar with the actual events will recognize the plotline. Like Cunanan, Reyes is a gay Filipino-American who attended a ritzy, exclusive school and who knew how to charm his way into the right circles. Reyes is driven by his father to excel and for a while he does get a taste of a life that lies beyond his family's means. But after his La Jolla sugar daddy catches him with a younger man, Reyes' life spirals into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andrew Cunanan: The Musical! | 10/6/2007 | See Source »

...maybe she'll set up another charm offensive, to tell us how she lied because she was scared, how in a way she's a victim of track and field's sordid culture of steroids and suspicion. Like all her performances, I'm sure it will be a doozy, but I, for one, will be skipping that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Betrayed by Marion Jones | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...earned him an Oscar nomination, and a neo-Nazi Jew in The Believer, his breakout 2001 role. Wider audiences discovered him wooing Rachel McAdams in the 2004 romantic weepie The Notebook and pursuing a murderous Anthony Hopkins in this year's thriller Fracture. But it took Bianca's quiet charm to draw out Gosling's most appealing performance and the one closest, he says, to who he really is. Bianca, by the way, is a life-size, anatomically correct sex doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oddball | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...fashion." Since 2003 Lord & Taylor has replaced 85% of its merchandise and reduced its style count 45%. The current 47-store chain is more akin to a specialty store: manageable, edited and easier to shop. "I think there will be a rallying cry for regional nameplates that bring charm and the service people are looking for," says Elfers. The plan is showing results. In 2006 the chain's sales and earnings performance was the best it has been in a decade. This year it's on track to do even better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Studying the Classics | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

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