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Still, as tourist experiences go, it's a pretty good gag. In their own way, these hefty and hairy characters are authentically unpleasant, and allow us to imagine that they might be direct descendants of true centurions whose gruff manners were a natural byproduct of a life spent avoiding a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Gladiators Help Sell Rome's Coliseum? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

Nadal's exoticism on the tennis court stands in contrast to the conventional life he lives off it. The son of a prosperous family - his father, Sebastian, runs a successful window company, another uncle was a star soccer defender for Barcelona and Spain - Nadal retains the earnest good manners of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Nadal's New Spin | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

This unease was a handsome fit for serious drama in the early Atomic Age. When the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. both had The Bomb, what was the point in pretense or courtesy? Pinter's quietly murderous insolence was the theatrical equivalent to Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging at the United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

3 | Washington Report Calls Out FCC Chair Over Bad Manners What started as a bipartisan investigation of Federal Communications Commission head Kevin Martin ended with a scathing report from House Democrats that stopped short of accusing the Republican chairman of illegal acts. The House Energy and Commerce Committee report, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Barack Obama's choice as Health and Human Services Secretary and director of a new White House Office of Health Reform has 26 years of experience in Congress - that's 22 years more than the president-elect. If confirmed, Tom Daschle will no doubt help Obama navigate legislative pitfalls in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incoming HHS Secretary Tom Daschle | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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