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Lamont, who acknowledged that his has not been a traditional route to politics, said that his passion for journalism eventually brought him to the cable television news business, where he made most of his fortune...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fourth Generation Harvard Grad Lamont Takes On Lieberman | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...nuclear-biological-chemical air filter ("You can pressurize the cabin and breathe through that"), ultra-long-life batteries, and, on the sides, a pick, shovel, and mats for bogged wheels. Three Panic Trucks have been built and five are in the works, says Watson, who loves the passion with which people embrace his creations: "They'll say, 'Oh, I got a chip on my bonnet.' And I'll say, 'Well, it's only a car.' And they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Road Warriors | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...found and embraced," says Do, "it is impossible to move on." Near the end of Footy Legends, Luc says: "All our lives, we lose everything." He urges his mates to look to the future. The seven characters who form the resurgent Yagoona team are bound by friendship and a passion for rugby league. How would you characterize such a group? Battlers? Bludgers? Westies? Yes, but there's much more to each of them. Do has quietly captured the textures of being and belonging. Like the country itself, it's a picture of tolerance, hope and humanity against a thumping background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peeling Back Australia's Identity | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...plainly the chance to see Rowling in the flesh that had attracted her to the event. I don't think I ever felt that way about Arthur Ransome, the wonderful British children's author of the 1930s and 1940s whose books I once devoured with the same passion Gina now displays. But then, the whole way in which one consumes and appreciates children's literature has changed since I was a child. Gina spent much of the day before the readings at a podcast in a New York bookstore organized by The Leaky Cauldron, one of the key Potter websites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.K. Rowling Speaks! Oh, and Two Other Writers Too | 8/3/2006 | See Source »

...philanthropist in the fields of education and medical research. Gibson may have a similarly long haul. His comments are, for many Jews, a third strike. The first strike came from comments Gibson's father made denying the Holocaust, the second from depictions of Jews in his film The Passion in what many saw as a negative light. "When you do something that plays into a preconception, you have to recognize that it will be a long-term battle to recover," says Lehane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Mel Gibson Can Redeem Himself | 8/2/2006 | See Source »

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