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...also paid scant heed to his girlfriend Laurie (Malin Akerman), a.k.a. Silk Spectre II, who's ready to fall into the arms of nerdy Dan Dreiberg (Patrick Wilson), a.k.a. Nite Owl II--some new Watchmen have moved up as older ones have retired. Meanwhile, still President Nixon (Robert Wisden) and other U.S. officials are poised to avert a nuclear strike by the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen: Hero Worship | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...share of long, clumsy scrawls. The budding romance between Dan and Laurie is tepidly drawn and wanly performed; those who've seen 300 know Snyder is in no way an actor's director. (The two self-starters are Haley, who does right by his grizzled role, and Morgan, a Robert Downey Jr. knockoff who chews the scenery and his stogie with equal aplomb.) And while the climax is unusual in a comic-book movie--bad guy does very bad thing, then escapes his comeuppance by persuading folks that what he's done is really kind of a good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen: Hero Worship | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...TIME's story on blowhard bosses [March 2]: Did the group of researchers at Berkeley really have to recruit students to demonstrate that "leadership is often loudership" and "bigmouths take charge"? Haven't they ever heard of Congress? Robert L. Sullivan, STOUGHTON, MASS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...think they were not to be found.' ROBERT BLEAKLEY, father of William Bleakley, after the Coast Guard ended a three-day search for his son and two NFL players, Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, whose boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs crept up to that line - even put his toe over it - as he tried to capitalize on the anti-Barack Obama declarations of talk-show behemoth Rush Limbaugh. In January, and again at a recent gathering of conservatives in Washington, Limbaugh pointedly declared that he hopes for the failure of Obama's economic proposals. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criticizing Rush Limbaugh: Over the Line? | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

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