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Whether hot or cold, says Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist who helped steer Howard Dean's meteoric 2004 campaign, Obama would be wise to keep a few scraps of advice in mind. First, he should keep his answers crisp. "I would tell him to go back to his appellate argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Debate Is On — And So Is the Strategizing | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

Against all odds, I found my literary heaven in Jamaica, England, and India on an all-American road trip. I normally adhere to the principle that for sanity’s sake, it’s best not to read for pleasure the literature you study. But I violated my...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Simple is Best in Postcolonial | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

There is a dancing, dazzling siren seductress at the heart of this book and of all books like it, and it is not Sally (or Sybil or Sylvia) but madness itself. When Sally turns manic, it's as if some interstellar alien god is speaking through her, and you hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief Lives | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

More important, his movies don't work on Hollywood logic. They are children's tales, and little kids rarely worry about the absence of secondary characters, let alone a story's connection to the nightly news. They want to be coaxed into another world, through words and pictures. Miyazaki has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ponyo: More Ani-Magic from Miyazaki | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

Most people involved in rugby and rugby league will tell you that Polynesians are naturally suited to the sports. "Oh, they're gifted athletically, there's no doubt about it," says Peter O'Sullivan, recruitment manager for the Sydney Roosters NRL club. "It's not just size. It's balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Play | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

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