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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...films in his last 20 years. He became a much more prolific producer, with the pictures he made through his Mirage company tending to be smaller in scale, more eccentric, more personal than his studio pictures had been and he enjoyed godfathering them. The individuality that films like Birthday Girl and Forty Shades of Blue flung in the face of increasingly conventionalized studio production appealed to his romantic side; the business of bringing them in on time, on budget, appealed to his realistic side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Director Sydney Pollack Dies | 5/26/2008 | See Source »

...killed at least 50,000 and has left more than 5 million homeless, according to official sources. Horrific videos from the disaster zone - the twisted bodies of children layered like fossils in the sediment of a pancaked concrete schoolhouse, the desperate decision to amputate the legs of a dying girl pinned in rubble - forced the Chinese people to look into the abyss. And reflected back was the image of a more compassionate and stronger nation than many had perhaps expected, a place where tens of millions of Chinese lined up for hours to make sure their donations of cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Helping Hands | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...attraction of life in Naypyidaw is its 24-hour electricity supply in a country plagued by power shortages. But that's not enough to entice civil servants to bring their relatives here. Asked why her family stayed in the old capital, a 12-year-old girl visiting her father answers in impressive English, "Rangoon is better; here is bad," earning her a slap on the head from her anxious mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Naypyidaw | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...going to sing anymore. I've hung my microphone up.' VICTORIA BECKHAM, former Spice Girl, announcing that she is retiring from performing to focus on her work in fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...killed at least 50,000 and has left more than 5 million homeless, according to official sources. Horrific videos from the disaster zone--the twisted bodies of children layered like fossils in the sediment of a pancaked concrete schoolhouse, the desperate decision to amputate the legs of a dying girl pinned in rubble--forced the Chinese people to look into the abyss. And reflected was the image of a more compassionate nation than many had perhaps expected, where tens of millions of Chinese lined up for hours to make sure their donations of cash or food or clothes were accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Roused by Disaster | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

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