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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores perros, Babel) and Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy). Yet Reygadas, 37, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent Light: Small Masterpiece | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...then, cigars were exploding in popularity around the world. The U.S. consumed some 300 million cigars by the mid-19th century, and many Cuban cigar-makers migrated to nearby Florida, where Tampa became known as "Cigar City" by the early 20th century. "If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go," Mark Twain declared. Though the boom was partly lit by the cigar's affordability, they soon become a must-have accessory for debonair gentlemen - men like King Edward VII, who, upon assuming the British throne in 1901, famously announced a break with the smoke-free policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cigar | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...crimes, calling for an end to the incompetence, inefficiency and corruption many see as India's status quo. In Mumbai, dozens of citizens' groups have sprung up, aimed at everything from neighborhood safety to overhauling domestic governance - to borrow from another epic, to try to make a heaven out of this hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Divine Comedy of Mumbai | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bellMiss Suzy went to heaven, the steamboat went toHello operator, please give me number nineIf you disconnect me, I'll cut off yourBehind the 'frigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JibJab's 2008 In Review | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

...Critics of the Church hierarchy see such pronouncements as proof of Catholicism's unhealthy "obsession" with sexual matters. In his book Sex and Heaven, Catholic writer John Portmann argues that the Vatican has made having "correct sex" the singular virtue for achieving salvation. In just the past month, the Vatican has announced its opposition to a United Nations proposal to protect gays from being criminalized and punished by governments for their orientation, and released a doctrinal office document reinforcing the Church's opposition to assisted fertility and stem cell research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Christmas Condemnation of Transsexuals | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

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