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...film pleasures as rewarding as watching Fanning listen.) There's also her gift of living inside the character without editorializing about it. She knows how close the camera is, how closely viewers are monitoring her moods, so she never pushes an emotion; she's like a doctor with a sixth sense for detecting internal ailments. With no signs of exertion, Fanning wills Lily from fictional stereotype into persuasive movie existence. The Secret Life of Bees may not be a To Kill a Mockingbird on page or screen, but Fanning is the center of its soul and intelligence. It's Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Bees: A Honey of a Film | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...foreign visitors that typically make up a third of Bonduel's clientele have been thinning out and spending less. To make matters worse, many French visitors to his restaurant, Au Bon Saint-Pourçain - a stone's throw from the church of St. Sulpice in Paris' tony sixth arrondissement - are also eating and drinking less than usual. "I've checked the accounts," says Bonduel, "and I know I'll make no profit this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards from Europe's Financial Bust | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...seventh day, the market rested. After five days of tumult that added up to the worst week in stock-market history, and a sixth day that saw the biggest point gain ever, the Dow Jones industrial average on Tuesday finished down 76.6 points, or 0.8%, an extremely mild loss considering the rollercoaster ride of recent days. The S&P 500, a broader measure of the stock market, finished down 0.5%, and the NASDAQ lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street Takes a Breath: A Return to Normalcy? | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...yards out from her goal and took off downfield with McVeigh running beside her. As McCoy ran into the circle, Billikens goaltender Katherine Deem came out to challenge her. McCoy simply sidestepped the goalie and shot the ball into an open net. The goal was her team-leading sixth of the season. The final tally came 57:59 minutes into the game. Sophomore forward Kristin Ohanian had the ball on the right side of the circle and sent a cross in front of the net. Jafar swooped in and blasted a one-timer past Deem. “I think...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Offensive Onslaught Leads Effort | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...their deaths, as Catholics who had sacrificed their lives in the name of God. Over the next few centuries, however, sainthood was extended to those who had defended the faith and led pious lives. With the criteria for canonization not as strict, the number of saints soared by the sixth and seventh centuries. Bishops stepped in to oversee the process, and around 1200, Pope Alexander III, outraged over the proliferation, decreed that only the pope had the power to determine who could be identified as a saint. (Alexander was reportedly angered about one saint in particular whom he believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sainthood | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

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