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...Directors of summer action films know how to get a PG-13: show all the fighting you would in an R-rated film, but don't show the toll it takes on the loser. Punches are fine, but no closeups of broken jaws; throw a guy off a rooftop, but don't show him landing impaled on an obelisk. Rush Hour 3 observes these niceties while twitting another MPAA rule: no four-letter words. In an early scene where Carter is interrogating a French-speaking thug through an interpreter, he gets exasperated and shouts: "You tell this piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Chan Back in Action in Rush Hour 3 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...primarily a stand-up and sitcom comedian. Can you do well in a more straight environment like The Price is Right? -Charles Peruchini, Los Angeles I'll be fine. It is like being at a party. You have to keep the games moving, but there are plenty of opportunities to make jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Drew Carey | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

Even when conservatives offer a decent health-care idea, the left is suspicious, sensing that the fine print gives poorer, sicker Americans the shaft. For the most part, however, this liberal loathing has been based on instinctive mistrust, with no scientific way to assess GOP indifference--or to separate those Republicans with whom liberals can do business from the hard-hearted monsters they should shun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Callous About Health Care? | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...Kids are kids. If people are going to tell them how good they are, there’s a fine line between confidence…and the fat and happy syndrome, the ‘hey, it’s going to be easy,’” Siedlecki said. “You can’t allow that to happen. And yet, you don’t want to be negative. There’s a fine line...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bulldogs Begin Ivy Repeat Bid On Top | 8/7/2007 | See Source »

According to Murphy, however, the gap between Yale and the rest of the Ivies is anything but fine...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bulldogs Begin Ivy Repeat Bid On Top | 8/7/2007 | See Source »

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