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...confronted with someone who makes everyone else look like mutton. There are a few moments when you sense the nervous tension inherent in an actress trying to make a breakthrough that could and should change her career, but they are outweighed by the number of times she's in command. She also has the most memorable scene involving a household pet since the time Christopher sat on Adriana's dog in the The Sopranos - this one's funnier. (From the newest movies to music, see TIME's summer arts preview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easy Virtue: Jessica Biel Shakes Up the Brits | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

Other students looked internationally for approaches to cost-cutting.  More command and control, please...

Author: By Liyun Jin | Title: Budget Plinko, Part IV: Cut This Instead! | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...photos' release should be barred because of the generic danger it would pose to U.S. troops. But by encouraging government lawyers to consider appealing the case to the Supreme Court, Obama can at least be seen as doing all he can to protect the troops serving under his command. That's critical, given the fact that U.S. troops are fighting Islamic militants in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has also made it clear that the worsening situation in Afghanistan requires delicate negotiations and cooperation with Muslim, and nuclear-armed, Pakistan. And his reversal has one more advantage: Obama is slated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Delicate Balance on National Security | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...From 2003 to 2008, led the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees the military's most sensitive forces, including the Army's Delta Force. McChrystal's leadership is credited with the December 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan McChrystal: The New U.S. Commander in Afghanistan | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...program, the idea that these operations aren't known to the military is sort of silly. Of course they are." - Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, describing McChrystal's role in what he calls an "executive assassination wing" of the military's joint special-operations command that Hersh claims reported directly to former Vice President Cheney's office (NPR, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan McChrystal: The New U.S. Commander in Afghanistan | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

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