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...There are many translations of those first two lines, and this is not the one Jarmusch provided - but due to my inability to write fast enough in the dark, I'm using that of Wallace Fowlie, an authority on French poetry. Fowlie, who died in 1998, devoted entire semesters of teaching at Duke University to Dante and Proust, which sounds like serious stuff, but he was noted for his fine sense of humor. I have no doubt that, confronted with The Limits of Control, he would have offered a fresh translation, "As I was going down that impassive narrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Control: Hitman of Your Dreams | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

There's sad news from Detroit. Embattled Chrysler appears to have run out of rope, and has filed for bankruptcy - a course confirmed by President Obama at a Thursday press conference. The reason for the fast fall into Chapter 11 is that some of Chrysler's debt holders refused to take the cash settlement offer put together by Steve Rattner and the Automotive Task Force, the terms of which they found rather harsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Creditors Scuttle a GM Deal Like Chrysler's? | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Well, now I’m one cent richer than you are,” she said. Then she would wink so fast, you might miss...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Blanket Statement | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Fast Facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arlen Specter: A Republican No More | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Fast Facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jay Bybee: The Man Behind Waterboarding | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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