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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...quite for the right reasons. Okay, Larry Summers’ BFF did once build an entire lecture around a hunk of plastic dog poo, and he gets the lines between current scientific theory, his opinion, and incontrovertible fact all mixed up, the poor dear. Pinker may flirt successfully with psychology, neurobiology, and evolutionary theory, but his class is jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Le sigh. But on the bright side: Pinker’s brain is as big as his mullet, if not as big as his ego, he’s a dynamic, entertaining lecturer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science B | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...this show because I don't have enough pain in my life." There was a time when we'd watch the Olympics and were happy to see a skier like Bode Miller ski down the hill. Now we have to know everything about his second cousin's flirt with gingivitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Martin Short | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...York (or Paris) looking like their old movie selves (though I did not, darn it, spot a white piano). OK, Andrea has to do a lot of demeaning fetching and carrying, but in return she gets to wear lots of swell outfits, go to A-list parties and flirt with devastating immoralists. In that somewhat limited sense, the movie is, I think, a triumph. And I feel ungrateful - even a little ashamed - that the dour side of me wanted kept wanting Andrea to seal her pact with the smartly shod devil and go straight to hell. That's for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil Wears Thin | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...David on the sleeve and met in a pastel orange clubhouse--should defy any attempt at logic. But in cases from Toledo, Ohio, to Lodi, Calif., we do have a rough sketch of which Americans are getting nabbed. Mostly, they're young, lower-middle-class Muslims, Americans who flirt at some level with radicalism. They get caught when they try to get training, weapons or, as was apparently the case in Florida, when they reach out, however ham-handedly, to a larger network. "Anyone who forms their own little group and then tries to connect with al-Qaeda is more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jihadi Next Door? | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...watch as the carnivorous Miranda than as Prairie's fading, wistful rustic Yolanda. Does the sheer longevity of her career make it hard for us to believe anymore that she can play anyone weak or pathetic? Or is it that she plays Yolanda's aging, slightly desperate flirt, complete with old-lady cleavage, so well it makes us uncomfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Myths About Meryl | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

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