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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The Palin Effect I must confess I'd been struggling to understand the recent surge in the popularity of Sarah Palin until Joe Klein put it all into sepia-toned perspective [Sept. 22]. I realized that her appeal reflects a wistful desire for an American abstraction, a wholesome place in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

Sociologists may need further research to determine how broadly the data should be interpreted. The Baylor study tested other statements that might indicate a similar belief in the supernatural intruding into everyday personal experience - "I heard the voice of God speaking to me"; and "I received a miraculous physical healing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guardian Angels Are Here, Say Most Americans | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

That boyish awe, which even his most detestable characters possess, comes out increasingly as earnestness, from the tear-jerking Extras finale to the touching moments in Ghost Town. In his stand-up, he starts with fat jokes, moves on to aids and then, when you're expecting rape for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renaissance Man: Ricky Gervais | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

Movies today, whether comedies or dramas, are proud of having renounced the piety of old Hollywood. Yet, however strong their bite or bitter their first taste, they're afraid to let the moviegoer leave with a dark thought in his mind; they require happy endings. That's one reason the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamlet 2: The First One Was Better | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

During lulls in the rock-'n'-roll war there were G.I.s who rode the waves of the South China Sea on pieces of fiber glass shipped from home. The stretch of sugary sand they favored most came to be known as China Beach. When the war was quit and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURFING INTO THE MELANCHOLY PAST | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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