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Every year, after the nation drags itself through the four to eight hours of an Oscar ordeal, critics offer suggestions for spiffing up the show. Cut the production numbers. Cut the technical awards. How about if the nominated actors perform scenes from their movies, and the viewers vote by phone, American Idol-style? Maybe Clooney and Daniel Day-Lewis, this year's front runners for Best Actor, could be put in a cage and have an ultimate fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save the Awards Shows | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...have emotional uplift. In another new movie, The Savages, the issue ostensibly addressed is that of middle-aged siblings saddled with a cranky dad suffering from Alzheimer's ("Al What's-his-name's Disease," as a character says in the Tom Stoppard play Rock 'n' Roll). But that ordeal turns out to be the work of but a month, not decades - just long enough for the brother and sister to learn the cleansing importance of family solidarity. The notion that terminal illness is mainly an opportunity for elevating lessons on the meaning of life, and not a debilitating slog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Myths: The Bucket List and The Savages | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

...often unreliable informants to infiltrate insular communities, and it means making arrests before anything close to a terrorist attack actually happens. The process sometimes ends with a trial but not necessarily a conviction, and that may be beside the point. It is, in all, a messy and unsatisfying ordeal, and possibly the best available option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Dix Conspiracy | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

From the beginning, in fact, the case against Gibbons was never really about her alleged insensitivity to Islam. Western and Sudanese sources tell TIME the ordeal began from an employment dispute at the school where Gibbons worked. Sarah Khawad, a former secretary at the school who had recently lost her job, allegedly dug up a letter Gibbons had sent to her students' parents in September informing them that each child would take home a teddy bear and record the evening in a diary. The class had named the bear Muhammad, Gibbons wrote. According to the sources, Khawad, a Sudanese citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teddy Bear Tumult's Legacy | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...inept, yet distinctly haughty, negotiation with the administration over the summer. Dean David Pil-mean had garnered most of the ire from students frustrated by this development, but the UC and its leaders deserve the lion’s share of blame for their uncompromising line throughout the ordeal...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The Spirit of the Council | 12/2/2007 | See Source »

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