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...Hollywood is sure to sand and sanitize this film's quirks. See the real thing now, not a ghost of The Host later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Host with The Most | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Though outing a CIA agent can be illegal, no one was charged with doing that to Plame. Instead, Fitzgerald went after Libby for lying. Though seemingly a side issue, Fitzgerald told reporters it was like "throwing sand in the umpire's face," a serious transgression that stops investigators from doing their jobs. Today, Fitzgerald came back to that theme, stressing that to "have a high-level official do that under oath in a national security investigation is something that's not acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Libby's Defense Failed | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

...result is a gorgeous, dreamlike movie that's almost too perfect. Every frame is neat and composed, like an oil painting, not a hair or a grain of sand out of place. All noise and dissonance have been digitally eliminated. It's beautiful, but it's more beautiful than it is real. Movies are invigorated by the tension between the director and reality, the struggle of the artist to tame the reluctant, intractable world, and that tension is missing from 300. If you've ever seen Hearts of Darkness, the documentary of the disastrous campaign to make a very different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Art of War | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...area. Where people are thinking about money, you always have more unsafe sex," says one of the teachers. Lenganasa L. Soipey?a member of the Nasinyai village council and son of the Masai chief who permitted the first tanzanite mining on Masai lands?draws the school layout in the sand. "We built an enclosed school because we thought our children might run back to the fields or to business," he explains. "If you get a small piece of tanzanite and sell it, you might not come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romancing a New Stone | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...billion, life on the beach can be tempting, particularly if you're Scandinavian. But for dotcom veterans Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennstrom, 40, whose sale of Skype to eBay rocketed them toward Gatesian wealth, the lure of a Great Leap Backward has proved stronger than sun and sand. Having launched Kazaa, one of the first music-file-sharing networks, in 2001 and Skype, the first big Internet-powered phone service, in 2003, the duo began work a year ago on a secret venture dubbed the Venice Project, whose goal was to bring yet another disruptive technology to your computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 50,000 TV Channels! The Skype Guys Strike Again | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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