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...Dave has a convenient, purely sexual relationship with Carolyn (Patricia Clarkson), who gives a lovely, knowing performance as a woman of a certain age. He has a good friendship with a poet named George (a wise and excellent Dennis Hopper). Polymathically, he has art, music, literature and photography to fill such idle hours as remain to him. And girls, of course - notably his students, whom he never tries to bed until he has given them their final grades. As far as he (and we) can see, he could go on like this for years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elegy: Death Becomes Them | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...dimly lit chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, some 25 Republican members took the floor Monday, talking to only a peanut gallery of journalists and hordes of tourists they'd invited to fill their absent Democratic colleagues' seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of High Gas | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

Obama has potholes of his own to fill. Michiganders didn't take kindly to being made the villain in Obama's oft told tale of how he had the courage to go to Detroit and say the auto industry needed to raise fuel-efficiency standards. It was an obvious way to establish his reputation as a "different kind of politician." But it didn't help his relative weakness among blue collar voters. Now Obama has to run up a healthy margin among Oakland's affluent independents and Republicans, who have been crossing over to vote Democratic in recent elections. David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Michigan | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...answer is, of course, c--and these are just a few of the spots John McCain and Barack Obama have aired in their already fierce contest. By fall, presidential political ads will fill TV screens nationwide. What has aired so far gives some clues as to the strategies both camps will probably follow in the coming months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...Frat Party Games series. But concerned parents began sending angry letters to JV Games and Nintendo - Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal even got in on the action, sending his own missives to the companies - until JV Games agreed to change the title of the game to Pong Toss and fill its pixelated cups with water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Beer Pong | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

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