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...only pleasure comes in watching Clooney do one of his favorite things: play himself as an idiot. The oafs in O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Burn After Reading were mere warm-ups for this über-doofus. Striding through Iraq as if he has even a remote view of where he's going, Cassady has a confidence that almost masks his lunacy. Thus, he's the exemplar of a war rationale built on the belief in weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooneypalooza: A Star Is Airborne | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...course, Pattinson can hardly be considered a mere human. As millions of the Twilight fans around the world know, his Edward Cullen embodies a secret world filled with vampires, archrival werewolves and really, really complicated mixed relationships. (See pictures of vampires onscreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Moon's Premiere: A Familiar Scene of Lunacy | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

Conservative kvetchers usually have a more serious bogeyman in mind: voters using dead people’s names, campaign workers coercing or bribing people into voting for their man—that sort of thing. But their evidence is almost always mere innuendo. Consider The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, who leads a cottage industry of voter-fraud hyperventilators. The day before the election, Fund laughably tried to tie ACORN, that all-purpose conservative bugaboo, to anticipated wrong-doings in New Jersey: “Philly operatives associated in the past with ACORN may now be advising...

Author: By Sam Barr | Title: You Give Fraud a Bad Name | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...Eswar Prasad figures that China's average urban household saving rate reached 28% of disposable income in 2008 - 11 percentage points higher than in 1995. As a result, the role consumer spending plays in China's economy continues to head in the wrong direction. Private consumption accounted for a mere 35% of GDP in 2008, down from 46% in 2000. China's ratio stands at about half that in the United States, and even trails the level in comparable emerging markets, such as India, where the share is 57%. What those figures tell us is that Chinese consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will China's Consumers Save the World Economy? | 11/15/2009 | See Source »

...that it could ultimately work against TPA initiatives and "come back to haunt us." But Senator Dorgan counters that $10 is far lower than similar fees - ranging from Ireland's $14 entry tax to the U.K.'s whopping $100 - paid by Americans when they travel abroad. And with a mere 35 countries that would be required to pay the fee, fewer than 30% of foreign travelers will be affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a New U.S. Tourism Board Woo Visitors? | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

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