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That's what the movie's heroine, Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) must do. Newly arrived in Oregon from Michigan with her mother (Teri Hatcher) and father (John Hodgman), she feels ignored by her stay-at-home, workaholic writer parents. Father, hunched over his PC, is a mild, preoccupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chilly World of Coraline | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

Remaining unbeaten in any sport over more than fifteen years is almost unthinkable. Yet on Feb. 5, nearly three months after beating Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden to maintain his 46-0 professional record, boxer Joe Calzaghe announced his retirement. Calzaghe hangs up his gloves as the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Calzaghe | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

It's not that Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones sound black - they sound American. The current voices of God are a celebration not of America embracing the black man but of America shedding its racial pretense (which is more than I can say for Kinsley's essay). Mark Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Global Leader | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Despite Randy Jackson's stock American Idol critique--"A little pitchy, dawg"--many beloved songs are actually off-pitch or out of tune. There's Ringo Starr on "With a Little Help from My Friends," of course, and just about every blues song slides into notes as opposed to hitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

The hearing room was a reminder of Holder's uncommon roots: there was his wife Sharon Malone, a prominent obstetrician whose late sister Vivian Malone Jones faced down George Wallace to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963; his brother Billy, who became a New York Port Authority cop; his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prosecutor | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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