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...time's cover headline referring to President George W. Bush as "The Lone Ranger" [Nov. 6] was like calling Donald Rumsfeld Mahatma Gandhi. Don't you know your pop-culture history? The Lone Ranger was a gallant man who helped people in distress. He then rode away, not waiting for accolades. The only thing Bush has in common with the Lone Ranger is that he is from Texas. R. Lee Lawrence Los Angeles I could accept that President Bush is, as you put it on the cover, "faltering in Iraq," "out of favor with his own party" and "increasingly isolated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A President In Isolation | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

Even though Michigan fell in the first battle, the war has yet to be decided. Their hatred for—and the fact that they can still hope to get a rematch with—Ohio State sustains them, therefore maintaining the sanctity of the 103-year rivalry they refer to as The Game...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE MALCOM X-FACTOR: True Game Requires Victory | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...Second Opinions Don't Always Add Up Too many physicians are quick to refer patients to yet another doctor instead of doing the heavy lifting themselves. That's not only inefficient ? it's bad medicine

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All About the Timing | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Casino Royale has to stick to the Fleming plot; it must also be Basic Bond. (The movie is so personality-split that 007 could refer to the number of the hero's warring personalities.) In this case, that demands not just the sneering villain (Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre, banker to the terrorist lite) and the tempting females, one blond (Ivana Milicevic) and one brunet (the criminally alluring Eva Green). It means that the focus of the plot must be ... a card game! We grant that high-stakes poker has its tension, especially if it's your hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Um, Is That You, Bond? | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...refer to it as “the” McMansion because there is really only one version sold. Designed (roughly) as a one-fiftieth scale model of the palace of Versailles, with a few elements taken from Cinderella’s Castle, the same McMansion is found all the way from Detroit to Dubuque, and everywhere in between...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: The Ugly Housing Bubble | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

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