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...time is right. it is the age of "me." Cell-phone users hold personal conversations loud enough for the world to hear. Drivers swerve down the freeway, coffee in one hand, cell phone in the other, honking and worrying about no one but themselves. Totally uninteresting people make videos describing their lives, as if someone should care. Has all this noise made things better? Maybe the next Persons of the Year should be "They," so people might actually consider the existence of other human beings. Bob Widmer Pleasanton, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

They were a fairly odd "father-and-son." The grown-up was intensely lonely, had worked at a pizzeria for 25 years where he tended to talk all day, particularly about video games. The "son," his face studded with the occasional piece of punk jewelry, loved the loud, awful music of the shock-rock group Insane Clown Posse, banging on the walls of the apartment they shared, to the consternation of the neighbors. Few suspected that the relation might have been born of a crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kidnapping Suspect: "A Big Friendly Marshmallow" | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

Dench: I wanted to do the part because Cate was playing Sheba. And she knows, because I've said it out loud in front of a lot of people. My admiration for her is absolutely unbounded. And we had a lot of laughs, which is always good. You have to be able to send yourself up, in order to get to something that is of substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Great Performances: Class Is In Session | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

TIME is right.  It is the age of "Me." Cell-phone users hold personal conversations loud enough for the world to hear. Drivers swerve down the freeway, coffee in one hand, cell phone in the other, honking and worrying about no one but themselves. Totally uninteresting people make videos describing their lives. Has all this noise made things better? Maybe the next Persons of the Year should be "They," so people might actually consider the existence of other human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 22, 2007 | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...available to his country one more time. This time though, Gore shouldn't worry about winning or losing; he shouldn't worry about raising money. He can remain liberated by making his campaign all about truth--not all about winning. Imagine Gore uncensored, speaking his heart and his mind loud and clear. How liberating for him; how exhilarating for the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 22, 2007 | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

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