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That's no mere fancy. In a study of the 2001 election, Wolfers and economist Andrew Leigh, of the Australian National University, found that while pollsters differed on the outcome and the winner's vote share, punters' money was solidly on the government. And in marginal contests, the favorite won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For a Winner, Follow the Money | 8/31/2004 | See Source »

Take Federal Liberal M.P. Ross Cameron. The father of four, a prominent campaigner for family values, told Good Weekend magazine recently that he'd been "an unfaithful husband." He added: "People are entitled to have a more unvarnished view of who I am if I'm asking them to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth Overboard | 8/25/2004 | See Source »

"How Loathsome" (NBM; 110 pages; $13.95), written by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane and illustrated by Naifeh, also chronicles the tawdry poetry of modern urban life, but it in the form a graphic novel. At the same time it happens to be one of the most interesting gay-themed comix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1 BR; Rats; Near Downtown -- $2,400 | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

Immigrant fictions are always hymns to persistence, to scrambling for a hard, narrow, marginal place in the newfound land. They also depend for their effectiveness on a lack of overt sentiment. And that may be the best thing about Maria Full of Grace. Maria's circumstances may keep changing, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: One Car in the Drug Traffic | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

The new five-year plan is Rodriguez's chance to prove once and for all that a lefty can run a major oil company as effectively as any capitalist CEO"more effectively," he insists. With giant new well projects at sites like Tomoporo and El Furrial, PDVSA hopes to increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Latin Oil Czar | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

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