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By now he's met Miranda (Michelle Monaghan), who's all the things Lila isn't: brunette, natural and unmarried. Eddie is warmed by her sporty friendliness, especially in contrast to the harridan convalescing in his hotel bedroom. He even likes most of her family, who come to the resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stiller Loses Heart | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

They were battling on those fronts this week. Giuliani's folks have been dropping hints that Romney is weak on fiscal discipline, in part to strengthen their position in tax-obsessed New Hampshire. Romney, still ahead but slipping in the Granite state over the summer, has fired back with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rudy and Romney: Ready to Rumble | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

Compare that with the way Indians embraced Arundhati Roy after she won the Booker Prize in 1997 with her debut novel The God of Small Things. Sure, Roy wrote in English, but she lives in New Delhi not New York and is therefore considered a worthier Indian writer - as if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tangled Roots | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

When Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling) introduces his friends to his new girl--a life-size sex doll named Bianca--some folks have trouble accepting it. Brother Gus (Paul Schneider) is concerned that Lars found "a fiancé in a box." One guy mutters that Lars is "in love with that slutty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soft Girl Is Hard to Find | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

Defcon 4: Attack by position. Between attacking by implication and actually naming one's opponent, there's an intermediate step: referring to your opponent only by his or her position. At his rally in New York's Washington Square Park on last week, Barack Obama took this tack: "There are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Candidates Attack | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

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