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When Polanski hooked up with the novelist Robert Harris, best known for his Roman fictions Pompeii and Imperium, for a film version of Harris's roman-a-clef The Ghost, he might have felt that the book had been written from his own recipe for paranoid suspense. It's the story of a writer of celebrity lives - a magician's best-seller, for instance, titled I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered - hired to add some marketable pizzazz to the memoirs of Adam Lang, a retired British Prime Minister of the Tony Blair stripe. He's called in on this rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Writer: Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...recently the White House has emphasized a tougher stance toward China. After Google indicated that it might end some of its China operations due to hacking attacks and official censorship, Clinton sided with the U.S. media giant and called on China to investigate the attacks. In early February, Obama said the U.S. would press China on its currency, which economists say Beijing keeps undervalued to boost Chinese exports. (See pictures of Tibet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China, Muted Reaction to Dalai Lama's Visit | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...quad is only the most glamorous example of what the sport might be losing if the penalties for trying one aren't reduced somehow, whether by awarding four-revolution jumps higher base points or by reducing the penalties for skaters who try and flub them. Plushenko, one of the most consistent quad jumpers around, landed a quadruple toe loop jump in the early seconds of his program and still came up short of the gold on Thursday, earning a silver. He has been outspoken all week about how he feels about the quad jump. "I believe that the quad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lysacek's Gold: Are Olympic Skaters Playing It Too Safe? | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...Mauawia is all he's cracked up to be, his interrogation might allow bin Laden's trackers to resume their hunt on a trail long gone cold. Every few months, an audiotape purported to be from bin Laden is released; the latest, on Jan. 10, praised Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the failed Christmas Day bomber, and ranted about global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the U.S. Hotter on bin Laden's Trail? | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...every three days the volunteers work, however, they get a sticker with a picture of Quatchi, one of the Olympic mascots, stamped on the back of their identification badge. For every Quatchi sticker, they might get a pin or some other small token of appreciation. And once they get three or four Quatchi stickers, rumor has it, the volunteers get a Swatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Would Anyone Want to Be an Olympic Volunteer? | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

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