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...films (249 features; the rest, short subjects). That number is down by 40 from last year's haul, thus allowing the bosses of the festival, Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey (replacing Noah Cowan), to congratulate themselves for streamlining the event. It's a little like a morbidly obese person bragging that he got through lunch eating only three bags of potato chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Goes to Canada | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...McCain adviser, a person who opposed putting Palin on the ticket, had to admit this week that she has transformed social conservatives from ho-hum to hyped, single-handedly closing a gap in McCain's army. "She has been a brilliant base play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Palin, Showtime About to Begin | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...which is not a political party itself, want to lead the country after Samak. Although many of those barricaded at Government House support the opposition Democrat Party, their numbers lagged behind the PPP's in last year's polls. Even Sondhi isn't willing to name a single person whom he believes could successfully lead the country. "We know we have to change," he says, "but we don't know how exactly to do it yet." In the meantime, Sondhi is of the act-first-and-negotiate-later school of politics. It's a stance that gives him a rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Thailand's Protesters Want? | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...coronation of his successor. The President, with favorability ratings stuck below 30% for months, may be popular in the convention hall with loyal GOP soldiers. But with the Democrats doing everything they can to paint McCain's candidacy as a third term of Bush, the President is the last person McCain wants as the party's face going into the fall campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Keeps Bush at a Safe Distance | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...came all this way to little Wasilla. And those who can talk, do. All weekend they had the decency not to pretend that they didn't know the governor's eldest daughter was pregnant. But they also expected decency in return, that I wouldn't be the kind of person to make sport out of a young girl's slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wasilla, Pregnancy Was No Secret | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

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