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...smarter people on set. The film Holes, which came out the same year, introduced LaBeouf to two of his stand-in father figures, co-star Jon Voight (who's also in Transformers) and Spielberg. Voight lent him acting books and turned him on to the notion that his work could be about more than a paycheck. Spielberg, meanwhile, saw Holes with his kids and filed the curly-haired teen away in his mind as a possible cinema son for Tom Hanks, should he need one. He didn't, but he would remember LaBeouf three years later, when it came time...
...simply, the embodiment of an inspiring idea about our country and about ourselves. It's the old idea that anyone can grow up to be President. Not just that, but that even at age 230, we are still young enough and flexible enough to be expanding our notion of who we mean by "anyone...
...notion that a person's race or sex should be irrelevant when you decide whether to vote for him or her as President is a respectable, even inspiring one. It would be the view of the majority on the current Supreme Court. In its big ruling on school desegregation last month, Parents Involved v. Seattle, the Justices forbade school districts to use race to assign students to schools--even for the purpose of desegregation. Chief Justice John Roberts quoted many of the Court's golden oldies on this point, like this from a 2000 case: "It demeans the dignity...
...just too easy to loathe Barry Bonds. As he approaches one of the most important achievements in American sport--Hank Aaron's all-time record of 755 home runs--everyone knows about Bonds the boor. He's fought with teammates, dissed the press and shunned the notion that athletes must strive to be adored. Then there's that whole steroids thing. In a recent TIME.com poll, 77% of respondents didn't want Bonds to break Aaron's record...
Such surprises have even allowed experts to speculate whether addiction can ever be cured. That notion goes firmly against current beliefs. A rehabilitated addict is always in recovery because cured suggests that resuming drinking or smoking or shooting up is a safe possibility--whose downside could be devastating. But there are hints that a cure might not in principle be impossible. A recent study showed that tobacco smokers who suffered a stroke that damaged the insula (a region of the brain involved in emotional, gut-instinct perceptions) no longer felt a desire for nicotine...