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...professor for defamation. The neighbor on one side is a belligerent, moose-killing goy; on the other side is not threat but temptation in the form of a pretty woman (Amy Landecker) who smokes pot while sunbathing nude. Anything else? Larry's legal bills are piling up, he just crashed his car, he needs to visit his doctor, and the guy from the Columbia Record Club keeps calling to dun him for a membership Larry never took out. According to those in his local synagogue, he isn't even the serious man of the title; that honorific goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers' Jewish Question | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...drawn - Larry's family slurps soup at a decibel level that even the Simpsons would find deafening - but they're fully assimilated. Nobody says, "Oy vey!" or talks shtick. If people answer a question with a question, the first would be Larry's plaintive "Why me?" when he seeks legal, emotional or spiritual help, and the second the world's "Who cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers' Jewish Question | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...allowed to "frequent brothels notorious for housing trafficked women," activity about which the company allegedly misled the State Department and Congress. Wackenhut Services Inc., the Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., company that is now the parent of ArmorGroup International, said that Gordon "voluntarily resigned" and that his "factual allegations and legal claims were overstated, ill-founded, not based on any personal knowledge, or otherwise lacking in legal merit." It also said it was cooperating fully with State Department investigations and referred all questions there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Embassy Scandal's Link to Cost-Cutting Security | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...South African government has said it is considering legal action against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) over its handling of a gender verification test on South African runner Caster Semenya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Slams Semenya's Gender Test | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...IAAF spokesman Davies told the Associated Press on Friday that, whatever the test reveals, Semenya would probably keep her world championship medal. "Our legal advice is that if she proves to have an advantage because of the male hormones, then it will be extremely difficult to strip the medal off her, since she has not cheated," he said. "She was naturally made that way, and she was entered in Berlin by her team and accepted by the IAAF." (See pictures of South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Slams Semenya's Gender Test | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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