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...There's a pretty fair argument to be made that Justice Powell should in fact have ignored Molly's advice and refused to find an abortion right in the Constitution - and it's not just the strict constructionist view that a judge's personal beliefs should not dictate one's reading of the law. Thanks at least in part to Molly, Powell believed women had the right to control their bodies. But he also believed that state legislatures were steadily embracing that view. As Jeffries explained, Powell and his brethren might have preserved abortion while preventing the divisive rancor that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Daughters Decided | 7/27/2006 | See Source »

That's when Chambers discovered his calling. He founded Bonnie CLAC (Car Loans and Counseling), a nonprofit that attempts to negotiate fair car prices for the working poor and offers them low-rate loans. Since launching his firm in Lebanon, N.H., five years ago, Chambers has underwritten $10 million in loans, and his clients have saved an average of $7,000 over the life of their loan, he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Car Salesman You Can Trust | 7/24/2006 | See Source »

...Corporate America, a higher degree in something other than business or law--or, worse, a stint of college teaching--can impart a deadly "academic stench" to one's résumé. And what are we to make of the growing corporate defiance of elementary grammar? At a job fair I attended, AT&T Wireless solicited sales reps with the question, if it was a question, "Are you ready to put your skills to work. Like the way you're a quick study. How you're good at finding solutions." Take that, you irritating, irrelevant English 101 professors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guys Just Want to Have Fun | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...probably fair to say that Mann's detailing of the final sequences is, in its way, of a piece with the careful way he introduces his many characters and lays out his plotlines in the movie's static beginning. There's obviously a compulsive component to his nature. But he more than rewards our patience when he finally flings himself into action. There is a very firm sense of screen geography when the guns start flashing, no careless frenzy in his staging, only a sort of deadly logic. It's a quality that's always in short supply when crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miami Without the Pastels | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...Clementine, a pig put up for auction by Lacey Washut, 9, at the Central Wyoming Fair. C&Y Transportation claims its winning $200-per-lb. bid was mistakenly placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jul. 31, 2006 | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

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