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...story may end in lame-duck leadership as he feasts on over-salted pizza and New York’s economy slides into irrelevance. The choice...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Indulgence on the Acropolis | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...This is a great show for the whole country, not merely the duck-duck-goose and Dunkaroo demographic...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Lessons From the Street | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

Casting about for some bright ideas for fall, several European designers landed on a good one: the great outdoors. How else to explain the gaiters paired with heels at Fendi, the duck boots at Hogan or the scene at Prada?where models stomped out in high-heeled, high-fashion leather versions of Wellington boots and waders chic enough to keep a real angler current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casting about for | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...deemed too willing to do Washington's bidding. But even so, al-Qaeda remains a marginal factor. Bin Laden may have imagined that 9/11 would anoint him the head of a resurgent caliphate in the making, but instead it has reduced him and his movement to a life of duck-and-cover in Pakistan's wild frontier - and a political address otherwise known as oblivion. History marches on without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eight Years After 9/11: Why Osama bin Laden Failed | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...protagonist like Joel is a sitting duck about to have his world upended; think Jeff Daniels in Something Wild or another sexually frustrated Joel, the one played by Tom Cruise in Risky Business. From the first frames of the film, in which a kittenish con woman named Cindy (Mila Kunis) is introduced in the midst of a deft act of shoplifting, we know this Joel is headed for trouble - girl and, likely, financial. After Cindy reads about an industrial accident in which Step loses a component (and a half ) of his manhood and stands to gain an insurance and lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike Judge's Extract: Full of Flavor | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

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