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...produced Pickett's disastrous charge. It was a course of action that defied reason (personified here by Lieutenant General James Longstreet, who is underwritten and underplayed by Tom Berenger). Lee's opposite number in the film's dramatic scheme is Colonel Chamberlain, commander of a ravaged regiment assigned to defend the Union flank on the hill known as Little Round Top. A college professor and, as played by Jeff Daniels, a soft-spoken humanist-idealist, he is democratic man at his best. And a commander of steely resolve. Almost out of ammunition, unable to withstand another Confederate charge, he mounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ''WHO WILL GO WITH ME!'' | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...paid for a local anti-Garrett radio ad that tied the incumbent to President Bush. With roughly seven times as much cash on hand as its Republican counterpart, the DCCC hopes to open up previously uncompetitive seats in order to force the GOP to dilute its own resources to defend what had once been safe seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rabbi in Congress? | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

...while both owners defend their own knocking off of a global brand, they share a moral flexibility that allows each to complain of the other's transgression. Each claims Kabul Fried Chicken was his idea (sort of). And now there are four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A KFC to Give the Colonel Indigestion | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...While I was trying to defend myself, apparently Mr. Pitt checked out my website. "Your official website says you're the guy who loves porn and hates America," he said. When I explained that was a joke, he told me jokes don't make for good campaigning. "Generally, people don't like to know that their Vice President wrote the sentence 'I love porn.' I'm now looking at the unpublished Joel Stein columns. 'The Hooker in My Car'? I'm now reading your column about your marijuana brownies. It's not the best thing in the world. This column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heartbeat Away | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...that is growing ever longer and ever deeper and where the Iranian appetite for nuclear technology to this point is still unchecked," Rice said after inking the pact. "It's hard for me to believe that an American President is not going to want to have the capability to defend our territory [and] the territory of our allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saber-Rattling from Iran and Russia | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

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