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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...good behavior. Instead, we have Becoming Jane, which plays like an Austen adaptation, but is in fact a biopic with an asterisk. That is to say, there is some scant evidence that the young, would-be novelist (Anne Hathaway) had a flirtation with an impecunious Irish lawyer named Tom LeFroy (James McAvoy) that came to a lot less than this movie rather melodramatically makes it out to be. Call it, perhaps, a fantasy based on a stray nugget of historical gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unbecoming Jane | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

...need to present the Castros in soft focus as your reporter did. They should be judged by the standards to which political leaders should adhere: respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of just law. On all these counts, Raúl Castro falls short. Jeremy Lefroy Staffordshire, England Radical Sheik Scott Macleod seems to romanticize Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah [Aug. 21]. Behind his smiling face is a militant radical. Nasrallah and his allies are responsible for ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon. Most of the Christian population has been driven away and replaced by Shi'ite Muslims. Nasrallah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Risk Can We Take? | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

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