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...reputation, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is said to have a fondness for foreign movies. It may be a decent bet that Groundhog Day - the goofy 1993 film in which Bill Murray relives the same day over and over again - is among them. The difference is, Murray does it in Punxsutawney, Pa., while Kim does it on the nuclear stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea's Hard Nuclear Bargain | 9/4/2007 | See Source »

...Pyongyang followed through with denuclearization. But was it true? Hill, arriving in Sydney on Tuesday for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, flatly denied the U.S. had made such a bargain. "No, they haven't been taken off the terrorism list," he said. And with that, it was Groundhog Day again: the dispute gives the North another reason to dither and dissemble should it so choose. "It can argue that it agreed to provide a full accounting of its nukes in return for being taken off the terrorist list," says one former South Korean diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea's Hard Nuclear Bargain | 9/4/2007 | See Source »

...thousands of people have been killed in a raging civil war, the international goodwill following 9/11 has been wasted, and we have a huge deficit and a military that is being ground down. Even if this Administration could push a replay button, the result would be like the movie Groundhog Day, an endless repeat of the same mistakes. Jack Plummer Franktown, Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...hedonistic groundhog day" is how director Justin Way describes Handel's 1735 opera Alcina, and a week from the opening of Way's new production for Opera Australia, Ariosto's epic tale of a sorceress who casts a succession of spellbound lovers into stone is undergoing its own seemingly endless repetitions on the Sydney Opera House stage. It is Act Three in a technical run-through, and as Alcina's enchanted isle crumbles around her, there are the usual technical tweakings of an opera that lives and dies on the strength of its illusion: the elaborate sets seem to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Talent Celestial | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...thousands of people have been killed in a raging civil war, the international goodwill following 9/11 has been wasted, and we have a huge deficit and a military that is being ground down. Even if this Administration could push a replay button, the result would be like the movie Groundhog Day--an endless repeat of the same mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 26, 2007 | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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