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Experts agree that girls can be a handful, but they can't agree on why. One explanation is the Kill Bill culture--a reference to the famously bloody movie and its famously lethal female protagonist. If generations of boys found their mojo imitating the likes of Bruce Lee and James Bond, why shouldn't girls be equally juiced at the sight of a jumpsuited, sword-wielding Uma Thurman? ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (a sister publication of TIME), recently ran an online list of Hollywood's 15 best "Butt-Kicking Babes," from the pugilistic Hilary Swank to the gun-toting Charlie's Angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming Wild Girls | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...hewn stone wall, is illuminated with amber light. Plasma screens line the walls, streaming iTunes-esque visualizations in matching yellows and reds. One wall in the table area is covered with an ornate Tibetan painting of an intimidating-looking deity stomping on some fools and scaring away the bad mojo. Co-owner Bik Yonjan told me the work came from his father’s traditional art studio in Tibet.There’s a semicircular VIP lounge, separated from the hoi polloi by a curtain of steel beads and decorated with Mandela on the wall and Buddha?...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hotspot: OM | 4/22/2006 | See Source »

...Manzano is to recover its mojo, the chair triangle's entrepreneurs know that they--and not politicians wielding protective tariffs--will be the ones to find it. "This is a moment of maturation," says Fanin, the machine-tool manufacturer, who recently laid off six of his 15 workers. "You can't compete on price. You need to believe in the company and innovate. There's no third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight In Italy | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...other things, the website's staff found a lack of evidence that Frey had a relationship with a girl who died in a train accident when he was in high school--Frey even wrote that he was blamed for the accident, which did much to stoke his dark-star mojo. The Smoking Gun found Frey's claim that he engaged in a melee with police officers in 1992 to have been fabricated. What is most disturbing, in a way (since a major plot point hangs thereon), is that the report questions the book's claim that Frey spent three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Memoirs | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

When legal and ethical questions began spinning around House majority leader Tom DeLay last year, President George W. Bush was publicly supportive. Privately, though, he questioned his fellow Texan's mojo. Bush had scored 10 points higher than DeLay in the Representative's district in 2004, and that was only after Bush had recorded a telephone message to help rally local Republicans. "I can't believe I had to do robocalls for him," the President said bitingly to an Oval Office visitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never a Texas Two-Step | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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