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We expect willful ignorance from Joan Rivers, but not the rest of you - nobody could pronounce those foreign names. Naomi Watts flubbed Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu; Meryl Streep gave Spanish film Volver a nice plug but rhymed it with Oliver; Barrymore botched composer Alexandre Desplat's name badly enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Surprises From the Golden Globes | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

As a piece of engineering, the BTC pipeline is a brilliant geopolitical bank shot. Built over three years, the pipeline had to skirt war zones in the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan, and in Georgia, which has been in a conflict with South Ossetian separatists. Then there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil's Vital New Power | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

Thant is not by profession a writer and sometimes his pages are so clotted with detail that they read like a dusted-off doctoral thesis. But as a storehouse of facts about a history too little known, his book is fascinating. In the 17th century, he tells us, the Burmese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alienated Nation | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

His approach to the line of scrimmage also fools defenders. Chargers fullback Lorenzo Neal dubs it "slow to, fast through." When Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers gives Tomlinson the ball, he tries to run to the line at about three-quarters speed. "You can't be going full speed," Tomlinson says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Back Ever | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

We've pushed the buttons too far. We've been greedy and selfish. Everybody knows what we've done to the rivers and the oceans; the fact that there's only 35 years' worth of fish in the oceans; the fact that the polar ice caps are melting. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Alan Arkin | 12/21/2006 | See Source »

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