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...would have been easy for Hooper to make The Tall Man a simple story of apparent injustice, to portray Doomadgee - with whose lawyers and family she spent a great deal of time - as a wholly likable victim and Hurley as a thug. Always, however, she favors nuance over cliché, context over judgment. The book's title is partly a reference to Hurley, a 2-m-tall career cop who had been decorated for bravery and eschewed comfortable postings for trouble spots like Palm Island, a former open-air Aboriginal jail where "the heat attacks like a swarm of insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Winners | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

John McCain is trying to take the halo off Barack Obama and portray him as a typical flip-flopping politician. "He's a calculating politician," Senator Lindsey Graham, a top McCain ally, says of Obama in a typical remark. Obama is making the Republicans' work easy. He is changing position after position, at the cost of sullying his reputation as a man who wants to change politics as usual. The candidates' strategies dovetail perfectly - which means one of them is making a big mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight of the Flip-Floppers | 7/7/2008 | See Source »

...soon as he writes the end of the story.' WILL SMITH, saying he would like to portray Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in a movie someday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

Richer and better educated people tended to vote for the treaty, while working-class Irish mostly opposed it. A similar social division over attitudes to the E.U. is apparent in many European countries. Euro-skeptics are right to portray the E.U. as an élite project that fails to connect with ordinary citizens. Yet pro-Europeans are also right to ask whether voters should have to pronounce on a highly complex legal text that would make no impact on their daily lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealing with Ireland's No | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...Tokuda is rare among Japanese porn stars in that his name has become a brand. The Shigeo Tokuda series he has just completed portray him as a tactful elderly gentleman who instructs women of different ages in the erotic arts, and he boasts a body of work far more impressive than most actors in their prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Booming Sex Niche: Elder Porn | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

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