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"If you can't find beauty in Manila, you won't find it anywhere," he quips as we later scarf Chinese takeout in his high-ceilinged Malate apartment. I find it impossible to disagree. Manila's aesthetic isn't perfect, and that's its attraction. There's an ironic local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bold and the Beautiful | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

National TV stations, now tightly controlled by the Kremlin, were ordered to broadcast the same coverage of the Church rites and the funeral ceremony, minimizing the chances for any unwelcome improvisation by any reporters. Still, a jarring moment occurred anyway: The state-run Channel 1 TV station invited a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimpse of Free Speech in Yeltsin Farewell | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

But people do generally recognize him. And his years onstage, a lifetime of improvisation, mean his stump speech keeps getting better. At one point he solemnly tells the crowd he would like their support when they come back next year. He waits a beat, then says, "So I have it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Laugh at Al Franken | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

Ferrell, 39, grew up in Irvine, Calif. (his father played keyboards for the Righteous Brothers, and his mother was a teacher) and learned the art of improvisation while with the Los Angeles comedy troupe the Groundlings. By all accounts, he worked hard but was such a natural that it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell: Brilliant Idiot | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

J. Jack Cutmore-Scott ’10 walks in with a bit of a swagger. Wearing a long tweed jacket, faded fringe jeans, a silver ring on his hand, he’s the very image of a London hipster, yet Cutmore-Scott is also unassuming and unpretentious, qualities...

Author: By Juli Min, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshman Takes Risk of 'Fall'-ing | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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