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...window there was an ominous sign posted: "Caution, American-size portions served here." In my mind, that says it all. I live in Europe where food is enjoyed but rarely abused and it pains me to see how my compatriots who come to visit stand out in any crowd not just for their sneakers and denim shorts but for their bulk. America needs not just to exercise but to eat less and better foods. Waldo Martin, Frankfurt, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...world's best athletes but also among its most controversial, under investigation by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) not for cheating or doping but for allegedly not being female. "Coach used to tell me there are many ways to kill a cat," she told a crowd outside her parents' thatched, mud-walled home. "I have killed it. That's why I am champion." More confusion was provided by Semenya's ancestors in the Sepedi tribe, who were in the habit of naming villages in the area after planets. Semenya's people, it turns out, come from Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home of South Africa's Gender Bending Runner | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...just as startling as it was on the track. At first, she rode high in an open-topped car, blushing and waving like a prom queen. A few minutes later, it was a burly-looking Semenya who rolled up to a microphone, baseball cap on backward, and thanked the crowd in a cracked baritone. Family and friends admit there is more than a hint of gender ambiguity about Semenya. "She looks like a boy," says her elder sister Nico, 24, at the family home in Masehlong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home of South Africa's Gender Bending Runner | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...Stare at Goats and to unveil his new inamorata, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. When the film broke down at the evening screening, Clooney serenaded the audience with a comic-opera rendition of O Sole Mio that wouldn't make Placido Domingo envious but did wow the crowd. This weekend he's in Toronto with two films, Goats and Jason Reitman's Up in the Air - which, to end the suspense right here, is one of the festival's and the year's best movies. At a press conference yesterday, when asked why he doesn't have a Facebook page, Clooney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooney Soars in Two Films at Toronto Film Festival | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

Former Dean of the Law School Elena Kagan—fresh from her first appearance before the Supreme Court—appeared before a rapturous crowd at the Law School on Friday where she described her recent experiences in Washington and was lauded by her HLS colleagues. Kagan, the current solicitor general, appeared on a panel with her successor as Dean, Martha L. Minow; Professor Charles Fried, a former Solicitor General under President Reagan; and Professor John F. Manning ’82, who worked in the solicitor general’s office in the early 1990s. Kagan?...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kagan Praised at HLS Panel | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

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