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...moments when you sense the nervous tension inherent in an actress trying to make a breakthrough that could and should change her career, but they are outweighed by the number of times she's in command. She also has the most memorable scene involving a household pet since the time Christopher sat on Adriana's dog in the The Sopranos - this one's funnier. (From the newest movies to music, see TIME's summer arts preview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easy Virtue: Jessica Biel Shakes Up the Brits | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...alternative approaches; his support has been vigorously opposed by scientists who believe that investment in alternative medicine is a waste of funds. In March, the Washington Post reported on an effort to shut down the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, a pet project of Harkin's (annual spending on alternative medicine at NIH makes up about $300 million of the $29 billion overall budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Universal Health Care Cover Faith Healing? | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...every citizen he meets as "my boss," Crist is widely expected to crush the general election field - if he can make it through the primary. Dubbed a RINO - Republican in Name Only - by GOP stalwarts for supporting green policies and President Obama's stimulus package, among other left-wing pet causes, Crist should have enough centrist street cred to woo moderate voters in the general election. But his campaign could be doomed in the primary by conservatives, who fear that, despite his pro-life, anti-gun control record, once in the Senate Crist could pull a Specter and pivot across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Governor Charlie Crist | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...morning walks) has been working for years on causes—the legalization of marijuana among them—that he sees as important roadmarkers on the path to reliable personal freedoms. In his eyes, there’s a common thread between the illegality of many of his pet causes: on-line poker, recording one’s conversations, blogging personal e-mails, downloading and file-sharing, and marijuana. “There is a very close relationship with the exercise of authority to force kids not to click on the net, and the exercise of the authority...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Public Domain, Part I | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

It’s losses like these that drive proponents of the recording industry to paint Nesson as a head-in-the-clouds academic, advocating for a pet cause while showing little respect for the victims—artists and workers alike—of the economic havoc it might create. “Mr. Tenenbaum’s counsel may be using this case to further a crusade to gut the copyright laws that protect creators,” RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth wrote to me in a recent e-mail. “[But] for a music community...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Public Domain, Part I | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

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