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...just gets people worked up. His singularly impressive statistics, his enormous contract, his ubiquitous TV commercials--all add up to, well, what exactly? To fans, he's a telegenic superstar. To detractors, he's overexposed and overrated. After all, he has never won the Super Bowl. Even after his finest moment as a pro, throwing for 347 yds. in a 38-34 comeback win over the archrival New England Patriots in the game that will give Manning a chance to win the big one, the critics can't resist piling on. "Pretend he's the only reason Indy won," read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Get Riled About Peyton Manning | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...held and guarded, and on the street, in the slums, and on the road, where gestures of kindness and casual acts of cruelty constantly occur. To my mind, Another of Day of Life and Shah of Shahs, about the mechanics of the Islamic revolution in Iran, are his finest works. Others might vote for The Emperor, about the court of Ethiopia's longtime dictatorial emperor, Haile Selassie, or The Soccer War, which covers time spent in Africa and South and Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chronicler of the World | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...made a few more film appearances, the last one indelible: as Richard Dreyfuss' adviser from Heaven in Always. It was a visitation from the guardian angel of our finest instincts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Hepburn: Still the Fairest Lady | 1/20/2007 | See Source »

Bulgaria's entry into the European Union on Jan. 1 should have been one of its finest moments. But for Foreign Minister and Deputy PM Ivailo Kalfin, that glory has been overshadowed by crisis. Two weeks earlier, five Bulgarian nurses were sentenced to death in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV, a charge widely believed to be groundless. Kalfin discussed Bulgaria's highs and lows with Time's Violeta Simeonova Stanicic in Sofia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Ivailo Kalfin | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...soon as they entered the Peacock Room - and maybe posed for a quick photograph with Dentsu CEO Takeo Mataki, who manned his position like a shopping mall Santa - it was straight to the food tables. There was the sushi counter catered by one of the finest restaurants in the capital. There was the grill manned by chefs who wielded steak knives like samurai. And there was the fugu - the poisonous blowfish delicacy that can cost your life if prepared incorrectly, and which can cost you $50 or more when ordered at a restaurant. I braved the fugu sashimi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowfish With the Corporate Elite | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

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