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...challenge to Gorbachev in Berlin epitomized the toughness that made Reagan great: by refusing to compromise his core principles, he defeated communism and won the Cold War. But the truth is that Reagan was more adaptable, politically shrewd and open to compromise than either his champions or his critics prefer to admit. He may have called the Soviet Union an "evil empire," but he was not above negotiating with it. While others saw the enmity between the superpowers as immutable, he insisted that change was possible. And though today he is revered by foreign policy hawks, Reagan's greatest successes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Speech That Ended the Cold War | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

That funding model is now dead. One reason is the foreign presell market has dried up - foreign governments now prefer to focus on their domestic film industries. Another reason is that U.S. films are often priced too high for investors to make money on, a problem that has intensified with dropping DVD sales around the world. Without being able to presell foreign territories, everything falls apart. "Imploded is the word I would use," says Roger Smith, senior motion-picture analyst at Global Media Intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indie-Film Shakeout: There Will Be Blood | 11/7/2009 | See Source »

According to the results, gay men prefer the most masculine faces and straight men prefer the most feminine faces...

Author: By Janie M. Tankard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gay Men Attracted to Masculine Features | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...last night Stephen C. Schoenbaum, assistant professor of Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and one of the study’s directors, said, “I would prefer to immunize young adults under 25 only if they have some chronic illness...

Author: By FRED HIATT | Title: Harvard Study, UHS Disagree On Swine Flu | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...system of government, Han becomes pensive: "I can accept the fact that there's no real democracy or multiparty system in this country in the foreseeable future. There are more urgent and realistic issues, such as press and cultural freedom. At least those issues are not hopeless. And I prefer doing things that are not hopeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Han Han: China's Literary Bad Boy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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