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Kidman has played the bitch goddess before, though never with such silky pleasure in being malevolent. If there's a casting revelation, it's the lead actress, who was just 12 when she was chosen for Lyra, her first professional role. Dakota Blue Richards: it sounds like the name of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Would Jesus See? | 12/8/2007 | See Source »

The notion of that much money, power and influence vanishing at a Papal penstroke appears to have been too much for the mythic sensibility of the West, which wanted to believe that the Templars must somehow have survived, adapted, or been subsumed into another, even more secretive trans-national group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican and the Knights Templar | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

Why is there a naked man tottering about on the roof of the pleasant English country house? Why, for that matter, is a malevolent dwarf residing in a casket intended for someone else? Should we worry about the "pigment mutation" that is obsessing a hypochondriac guest? Do we really have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Very Lively Death at a Funeral | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

Like most of the earlier conspiracy thrillers, this one proceeds from two warring premises: a synoptic cynicism about the men who run things, and a dewy belief in the myth of the lone hero. You're to accept on faith that the high-level perps are both deeply malevolent and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Holes in a Conspiracy | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

No one grasps more greedily-and cruelly-the need for agency in death as does the greatest moral monster of our time: the suicide bomber. By choosing not only the time and place but the blood-soaked story that will accompany his death, he seeks to transcend and redeem an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Dying Well | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

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