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...breakup (he has, as you might expect, a commitment issue). She leaves him. He mourns perhaps excessively. She, astonishingly, returns to him some years later. And here both the Roth novel and Isabel Coixet's film (written by Nicholas Meyer) take a truly memorable turn. For she is gravely ill and living alone with the possibility of premature death. She wants Kepesh to take erotic photographs of her before the surgeon's knife destroys her beauty. Does she want more from him? If so, can he respond to her need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elegy: Death Becomes Them | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...Chinese will see on TV only happy, smiling, competitors (with no doubt a huge proportion of Chinese winners) and none of the debate regarding freedom or human right. The poor and disenfranchised will not benefit from the Games; on the contrary, many have suffered directly because of the ill-considered decision to hand the Olympics to China. Karen Ho, Coolum, Queensland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...will have spent my money well [July 28]. I intend to use the phrase "practically a sequoia" often to describe my own 61-year-old personage. Whether I agree or disagree with his opinion, I will remain grateful to him for an evening's amusement. Patricia W. Gould, NAPERVILLE, ILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...ever think about acting in serious roles? Mary Muhlenfeld NAPERVILLE, ILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Seth Rogen | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...paid employees who manage long-term aid and community projects in poor areas for decades-long stretches. More recently, another model has emerged: each year, often during school breaks, about a million short-term volunteer missionaries in gangs of about 15 briefly saturate the Third World, enthusiastic if often ill-prepared, to build houses or dig wells and/or share the Gospel for about two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Ambition of Rick Warren | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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