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Then there's her friendship and apparent long-standing affair with Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), a West Point flying instructor who became head of the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce during the Roosevelt Administration, thanks largely to Earhart's advocacy with Eleanor Roosevelt (a jolly Cherry Jones). Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Amelia Earhart: Lost at Sea | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Sensibly, the screenwriters and Nair aren't coy about Earhart's likely fate. There are no absurd conspiracy theories involving the Japanese or suggestions of her making safe landing on some deserted island - just communication blunders and furrowed brows (a Swank specialty), and then she and the plane are gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Amelia Earhart: Lost at Sea | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Why don't we hear constant political debate about these other stimulus efforts? Presumably because they were the result of bipartisan legislation or were the doing of the nonpartisan Fed. That is to say, the Obama Administration can't take full credit for the bulk of the stimulus, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stimulus Spending Bill: Is It Working at All? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Six months before John Freeman began his treatise for a "Slow Communication Movement," the literary critic was receiving about 300 e-mails a day. And he was not alone. In the time it takes to read this sentence, some 300 million e-mails will be sent and received. On average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

He was an unlikely combination: an intellectual Wall Streeter. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Wasserstein enrolled at Harvard Law School at 19 and worked with Ralph Nader's "Raiders" before becoming a corporate lawyer. But it was as a banker--at First Boston, then at the boutique firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce Wasserstein | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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