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Instead, we hear this blather from President Obama: "The American people should be assured that we are doing everything in our power to keep you and your family safe and secure during this busy holiday season." He forgets that Americans have never really wanted the government to do "everything in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson: Passengers Are Not Helpless | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

The story of Flight 253 exposed a raft of glaring flaws in the global aviation-security network. Almost all are well known to aviation experts. Yet what President Obama eventually called a "systemic failure" caught his Administration flat-footed for the first 72 hours after the attack, as officials initially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We Can Learn from Flight 253 | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

The Brazilian officials organizing the film premiere of Lula, Son of Brazil probably weren't thinking of the biopic's subject when they chose the music to be played before the curtain went up. But the subliminal connection with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was hard to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula Onscreen: Brazil's President as Superhero | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

Little-known actor Rui Ricardo Dias does a fine job portraying Lula from young man to adult, but the film glosses over Lula's frailties, depicting him as a man who can do no wrong. "The director omitted episodes in Lula's life that suggest the President has weaknesses or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula Onscreen: Brazil's President as Superhero | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

The problem is that portraying Lula as a saint stretches credulity. Brazilians know and admire the man who dragged himself up from poverty to become President of the world's fifth most populous nation. But while the film ends in 1980, the years since have produced a different Lula, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula Onscreen: Brazil's President as Superhero | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

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