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...when he once more forcefully backed a deeply unpopular Bush policy: refusing to criticize Israel's strategy or tactics in Lebanon or call for an immediate cease-fire. Blair's transformation today into official lame duck means all the European leaders who backed the Iraq war - Spain's Jose Maria Aznar, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi and Poland's Leszek Miller - have paid the ultimate political price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Tony Blair's Downfall | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

...unlucky casino employee and his girlfriend, had just been smacked with an NC-17 classification - no one under 17 allowed to attend - by the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America. The film's offending passage was a tender love scene between William H. Macy and Maria Bello that included the briefest glimpse of the actors' genitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censuring the Movie Censors | 9/2/2006 | See Source »

...matter of sex in films, as raised by Maria Bello's comments about The Cooler and Scary Movie, is clear enough. And it is especially notable in films that treat gay sex. This Film Is Not Yet Rated splits its screen to show similar sexual scenes, with gay ones on the left side, straight on the right. A girl masturbating about a girl she's met (in But I'm a Cheerleader), a boy masturbating into pastry (American Pie); a gay orgasm (Boys Don't Cry), a straight orgasm (Single White Female); a guy on top, with a guy (Mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censuring the Movie Censors | 9/2/2006 | See Source »

...matchups, the Tiger Woods--inspired golf boom or the rise of extreme sports to occupy kids' time--bottom line, tennis in the U.S. is looking to Roger and Rafa. "We need something," says famed tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, sculptor of greats from Agassi to the Williams sisters to Maria Sharapova. "It's far too dry. And the common ingredient in all rivalries is the contrast, in styles of play or in personalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Duel to Fuel Tennis | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...drop in on Pope's Colleges That Change Lives tour, a kind of low-key Lollapalooza for freethinking colleges that are looking for liberated students. Last year more than 600 people attended each of the sessions in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and Washington. In a crowded Manhattan hotel ballroom, Maria Furtado, director of admissions at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., grabs the wireless microphone in front of a crowd of more than 500 parents, students and college counselors and happily shatters conventional wisdom. "Every spring and every fall, this is what you will see and hear in the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Harvard? | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

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