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...most powerful taste-makers in Hollywood, the guy behind the record-breaking success of 300, the hit status of NBC's Heroes and the reign of the Xbox 360 gaming console. He enjoys invitations to the Skywalker Ranch and hangs out with guys like Nicolas Cage and Quentin Tarantino at conventions. He's zealously loyal, notoriously finicky and often aggressive with those who dare to disagree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Boys Who Like Toys | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...population can reach Tainan in less than two hours, raising hopes that the island's spiritual and cultural center will thrive once again. "This is where Taiwan's modern civilization began," says Tsai Bi-ju, Tainan's international-affairs section chief, referring to the city's 200-year reign as the island's capital before Taipei replaced it in 1885. Tainan's founding father, a Ming dynasty general called Koxinga, arrived from China in 1661 with a fleet of artists and scholars, intent on transforming the Dutch-ruled port into a beacon of Chinese culture. It worked, and today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Tracks | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

Although the Marines have always been Sinnott’s "first love," she said that she is excited about her reign as "Miss Boston." Her first appearance will take place today at Red Sox Opening Day. Sinnott plans to compete in the "Miss Massachusetts" pageant this June...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Guns n' Roses | 4/10/2007 | See Source »

...Northern European or an American, who wonders if this southern pocket of Europe somehow got left behind. Adding to the unease are picturesque streets in the historic center littered with trash as well as warnings from locals not to go out at night when purse snatchers and gang members reign. Celiento does not believe that either the city's habitual skirting of the law or the Camorra culture of death is rooted in the economic hardship. "A culture of civility comes before any economic question," says Celiento. "It must start in families. The first time I find my son without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Naples | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...house of Tudor stretched from 1485, with the coronation of King Henry VII, to 1603, the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter with Anne Boleyn. It was an era of religious turmoil, fomented by coquettish Lady Anne Boleyn lobbying for her King to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine. As Henry teetered between Catherine's Catholicism and Anne's Protestantism, the faith of a nation depended on a monarch's lust. "Our biggest enemy is terrorism," says Charles Beem, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "Theirs was the Reformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Royals Become Rock Stars | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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