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The Colbert Report has an occasional segment called "Cheating Death," which is introduced by the image of Stephen facing the hooded figure of Death over a chessboard. That's a reference to the 1957 film The Seventh Seal, a medieval morality play written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Colbert, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ingmar Bergman Mattered | 7/30/2007 | See Source »

The Bush Administration cited the same report released earlier this week as a reason to stay in Iraq, but Obama, who said he read the classified version of the report yesterday (only seven pages were released to the public), took the opposite view. In response to a question on whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Says Iraq Has 'Distracted' Us | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

"We didn't handle Afghanistan well because we got distracted," Obama said, pacing across a makeshift stage in the school's gym before a giant flag. "We took out translators, didn't put in development money that was needed... And we didn't have a coordinated strategy to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Says Iraq Has 'Distracted' Us | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

Edwards' populism was heating up - and threatening to boil over. Though he had sometimes seemed distracted on this tour, as if holding something back during so many sessions with so many needy people, his passion had been building since the night before in Pittsburgh, as he weaved stories from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Edwards Fires Up His Populism | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

Folk wisdom holds that a change is as good as a rest. But as one Prime Minister departs and another takes office in Britain, a merciless salvo of changes is leaving some folk in Westminster praying for a rest. Civil servants have found themselves scurrying at cartoon speeds to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downing Street Shuffle | 6/26/2007 | See Source »

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