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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...enter. Admission to the dolce vita is the apple held out by her new friend David (Peter Sarsgaard), a suave businessman twice her age. He, in turn, is seduced by Jenny's intellectual brio and, for all her poise, innocence. With the same connoisseur's appreciation he might focus on an undervalued painting, David murmurs, "Isn't it wonderful to find a young person who wants to know things?" It's hard not to fall in love with a girl so in love with life's prizes and surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carey Mulligan in An Education: A Star Is Born | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...really looking forward to this weekend,” Atkinson said. “We’re planning to come out and show what we have been training for and that is the focus of the team right...

Author: By Jessica L. Flakne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Cruises to Third Conference Win | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...really looking forward to this weekend,” Atkinson said. “We’re planning to come out and show what we have been training for and that is the focus of the team right...

Author: By Jessica L. Flakne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Cruises to Third Conference Win | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...That doesn't necessarily mean there's no diplomatic solution in the works or that Iran is simply playing for time. What it does mean is that Iran will try to focus the diplomacy on strengthening safeguards against weaponization of nuclear material, rather than on halting the production of such material in the first place, as the Western powers have demanded. The U.S. and its allies had sought to prevent Iran from achieving a "breakout" capacity - i.e., assembling sufficient civilian nuclear infrastructure to allow it to move relatively quickly to build a bomb should it choose to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Can the U.S. Take 'Yes, But' for an Answer? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...seeking Russia's help to develop nuclear energy in Venezuela - and especially since Sanz turned heads a couple of weeks ago by disclosing that Iran is helping Venezuela locate its own uranium reserves - the South American nation and its socialist, anti-U.S. government have become a new focus of anxiety over regional if not global security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chávez to Iran: How About Some Uranium? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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