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...this one actually has ethnic-appropriate casting. The Jews here are sometimes broadly drawn - Larry's family slurps soup at a decibel level that even the Simpsons would find deafening - but they're fully assimilated. Nobody says, "Oy vey!" or talks shtick. If people answer a question with a question, the first would be Larry's plaintive "Why me?" when he seeks legal, emotional or spiritual help, and the second the world's "Who cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers' Jewish Question | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

During the question and answer session, Harvard’s lofty minds posed provocative questions...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: PETA Debate: On Tolstoy and Bonzai Trees | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...hard to imagine a new tax getting a bigger cheer from a political leader than the one unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy Sept. 10. The French President's radical plan to impose a carbon tax on homes and businesses, he said on a factory visit in eastern France, addresses the "question of survival of the human race." Slated for introduction next year, the levy marked the "first step," Sarkozy said, in "a fiscal revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Considers a Tax on Carbon Emissions | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...regime fell," says Karim Pakzad, a Middle East expert at Paris' Institute of Strategic and International Relations (IRIS). "It's understandable that the Iraqis want to extend their sovereignty to a camp of former militants, whose presence they can no longer stand. But it's also become a humanitarian question: what to do with these people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunger Strikers Ask U.S. to Help Iranian Dissidents in Iraq | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...beholder, and Democrats like Senator Chuck Schumer challenged the other team to step up: "The ball is now clearly in the court of the Republican Party. Are they going to continue to just say no? Or will they meet us part of the way? That's the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Obama's Speech, It's Back to Wooing the Skeptics | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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