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...Barraza, president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, a leading business group. But for Calderón to do this on the scale needed would seem to mean taking on the powerful business interests that dominate his party (and hamstrung Fox), which played a decisive role in electing him in his razor-thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Paradox | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses. So Occam's razor--Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward--leads me more to believe in God than in the multiverse, which seems quite a stretch of the imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...invents an entirely imaginary figure-a grotesquely hirsute man-and brings him to the center of the story. Where he serves as the beast to Diane's beauty, horrifying her, titillating her, then enlisting her sympathetic curiosity and, finally, her love. Once Diane (Nicole Kidman) gets out her razor and shaves him down, this character, who is called Lionel Sweeny, turns out to look a lot like Robert Downey, Jr., and how bad can that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploiting Diane Arbus | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...specialty theaters, is problematic. On the other hand, it wants to be free to sensationally reinvent her life, mainly in order to provide the audience with images that are simultaneously revolting and sentimental. We're supposed to draw back aghast from the close-ups of Diane endlessly applying her razor to Lionel's pelt. At the same time we are supposed to applaud her humanistic bravery, especially since Kidman always plays her naively, as an innocent eager to investigate the world's dark side but never her own. This, of course, ignores the evidence of Arbus' own unblinking confrontations with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploiting Diane Arbus | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...woman killed during the parade, which is scheduled for Nov. 10. Several ultra-orthodox rabbis have vowed to mobilize more than 100,000 protesters to shut down Jerusalem on the day of the parade, and police warn that some groups plan to pelt the marchers with apples jagged with razor blades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatred (of Gays) Unites Jerusalem's Feuding Faiths | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

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