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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suave businessman twice her age. He, in turn, is seduced by Jenny's intellectual brio and, for all her poise, innocence. With the same connoisseur's appreciation he might focus on an undervalued painting, David murmurs, "Isn't it wonderful to find a young person who wants to know things?" It's hard not to fall in love with a girl so in love with life's prizes and surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carey Mulligan in An Education: A Star Is Born | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...rather by government. Labour leadership sent MI5 a list of names of 16 Labour MPs who they thought were more communist than Labour. MI5 refused to get involved because it saw this as party politics. However, the man at the top of that list [Will Owen] we now know had been a Czech agent for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Christopher Andrew on MI5's Secrets | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

Voters preparing to oust the weary old devil they know for a plausible young newcomer are apt to wonder if they're making the right decision. When the newcomer is David Cameron, the smoothly enigmatic leader of the Conservatives, a party once so damaged by a perceived lack of concern for Britain's most vulnerable people that its own chairwoman dubbed it the "Nasty Party," you can understand why voters want proof that the party has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nasty No More? Britain's Tories Reach Out to Gays | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...taken by the U.S. and its closest allies may have been rendered redundant by events. The Bush Administration, backed by France, Britain and Israel, had insisted that Iran could not be trusted to enrich uranium, even for peaceful purposes, and that it should be prevented from even attaining the "know-how" to do so. But know-how is a milestone Iran passed long before Bush had even left the Oval Office, and enrichment has been a fact on the ground in Iran for the past four years. And whether that reality is, in fact, reversible, has increasingly come into question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Can the U.S. Take 'Yes, But' for an Answer? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...Arabia to isolate the country politically, it faces huge economic challenges as it switches from a Soviet-style economy to a market-driven model. Syria has been touting itself to investors as a future regional industrial and transportation hub. But it will need plenty of Saudi money and Western know-how - not to mention improved diplomatic relations - in order to make that great economic leap forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rapprochement Between Syria and Saudi Arabia? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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