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...Astor was proud of the fact that she never gossiped. She was proud that she never had a face-lift. She was proud to have mastered the art of conversation and was able to communicate ideas without resorting to ad hominems. She was proud to be loyal to her friends from all walks of life. She valued not what people had, but who they were and what they could contribute. She treated everyone as unique and as important individuals - from the guards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to those at the Library, to presidents, governors, senators, and industry titans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering the First Lady of New York | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

...Cañí” starts playing, they begin a paso doble. With the man moving as the matador and the woman flowing as his red cape, the two weave a passionate dance of give and take, push and pull. It ends with a stellar lift as he raises her above his shoulders while her body is contorted into a ring-like shape, releases her so that she free falls around his body maintaining the same position, and wears her as a belt...

Author: By Giselle Barcia | Title: So You Think You Can Bash Reality Television | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...Abbas's team also expressed frustration at what they described as Rice's failure to nail down Israeli promises to lift roadblocks inside the Palestinian territories (so far, the Israeli military has refused) and halt illegal Jewish settlements. "Rice doesn't get into specifics," complained one Palestinian negotiator. "She's like a priest in church telling us what God likes or doesn't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Going for Rice in Jerusalem | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...viewers who click onto his site each day to hear him describe--as he did a few weeks ago--a New World--style Spanish wine as "not obnoxiously over the top and fake as many of these types of wines are. Instead of a full face-lift and boob job and suction and all of that, maybe this just got a nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Totally Uncorked | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...even if it took decades --and no small amount of pressure --for the CIA to lift its curtains, the agency at least felt some shame about its past activities. The papers, said CIA chief Michael Hayden, are "reminders of some things the CIA should not have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets, Revealed | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

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