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...elected without U.S. backing. (The U.S. eventually accepted him as Secretary General after dropping its bid to seat a more conservative Mexican nominee.) Insulza gained further credibility as an impartial broker last year when Chavez, widely regarded as the force that got Insulza elected, angrily declared him "a true idiot" and "a viceroy of the [U.S.] empire" for warning the Venezuelan leader not to encroach on a free press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refereeing the Colombia Standoff | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...dramas and eventually won an Oscar nomination for co-writing the original screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck. He makes sure to not get stuck in one character or type of film. He has a Joel and Ethan Coen movie coming out in which he plays an idiot (as he did in their O Brother, Where Art Thou?), and he's working on a movie about the founder of est and a comedy about the 1979 Tehran hostages who escaped. The next movie he directs and co-stars in is Leatherheads, a screwball comedy about pro football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Clooney: The Last Movie Star | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...sings with remarkable power and sinew in another song, and it's not a boast, though her put-downs of the men who would take advantage of her certainly are. Throughout, she's mouthy, funny, sultry and quite possibly crazy, yet unlike Britney Spears or a dozen other pop idiot savants, Winehouse not only knows who she is but is able to express it in a way that's often beautiful and meaningful to others. Traditionally, we call that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble Woman | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...massive stamping down on the bumbling. Much less bumbling." A quick search on Google reveals the scale of the problem: a combination of the words Boris Johnson and bumbling produces more than 27,600 results. Sample sentence from an article: "Everyone keeps telling me Boris Johnson's bumbling-idiot routine is just that--a routine. I'm not so sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clown Prince | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...longer has much control over the outcome at Thursday night's caucuses. Most of the pieces have already been played. So he grows his beard, fingers his pinky ring, and barely sleeps. "On Friday," he calls out, "you can write that either I am a genius, or an idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Final Push in Iowa | 1/1/2008 | See Source »

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