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...Moving, sad, beautiful “Idiot Wind” (the New York version) over the marriage break-up and divorce of Robbie Clark (Heath Ledger) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg...

Author: By Crimson arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CELEBRITY LISTS | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...going to be a 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: "Everyone keeps telling me Boris Johnson's bumbling idiot routine is just that - a routine. I'm not so sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Johnson: The Clown Prince | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...ethic. From his mother, a school-board employee, he derived the notion that "education is the elixir for all problems," he says. "Every problem Jada and I have ever had, we found the answer in a book." The Smiths have a family library stocked with everything from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism to homeschooling texts for their children--Willow, 7, and Jaden, 9, and Smith's son from his first marriage, Trey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legend of Will Smith | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...that Apple's Macintosh created a graphic user interface, GUI (pronounced goo-ey), that made it easy for ordinary mortals to use personal computers, Land has laid claim to what he unabashedly calls a VUI (voo-ey), or vocal user interface. The idea is that companies need an idiot-proof building-block system to assemble easy-to-use services with which customers feel comfortable. "All business is vocal," Land likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Automated Call Systems Hear You Now | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...level of born-again tub thumping is mercifully low--though there are signs that as a result of American cultural influence, it is creeping up among the young. Any political candidate who declared that God was on his side would be laughed off the podium as an idiot or a wowser (prude, intrusive bluenose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Australia | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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