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For learning how to treat people. That's a lesson Jenny must take at school - not so much from her starchy headmistress (Emma Thompson) as from her home-room teacher. Miss Stubbs (Olivia Williams) is one of those quiet beauties who dress severely, perhaps to punish the world for not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carey Mulligan in An Education: A Star Is Born | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

There are two pairs of twins in your book. Is there a reason that twins, in pop culture at least, are inherently creepy? Other than the Weasley boys in the Harry Potter series, you never really see twins portrayed in a happy way. I suppose one source of unease is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Niffenegger on Her Ghostly New Novel | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

"We are patriots, not hungry for power. We don't intend to stay in power forever." - Pledging not to stand for elections after seizing control of Guinea's government (France 24, Dec. 25, 2008)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinean Leader Moussa Dadis Camara | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

Conservatives from the ruling center-right Union for a Popular Majority backed Mitterrand. On Thursday evening, a close aide to Nicolas Sarkozy said the French President backed his Culture Minister and described the controversy around him as "pathetic." A few of Mitterrand's backers noted that while disturbing in parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitterrand: A Friend to Polanski — and Young Boys? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

Sanz, however, insists that Iranian experts have concluded Venezuela "has a lot of uranium." If so, the other big question is whether Venezuela itself will really pursue a nuclear-energy program. Like oil-rich Iran, it's hardly in urgent need of nuclear power: Venezuela has the western hemisphere's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chávez to Iran: How About Some Uranium? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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